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William Howard Taft, the Man of the Hour; His Biography and His Views on the Great Questions of To-Day with the Platform of the Republican Party, and a Sketch of the Nominee for Vice President

William Howard Taft, the Man of the Hour; His Biography and His Views on the Great Questions of To-Day with the Platform of the Republican Party, and a Sketch of the Nominee for Vice President


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT CHAPTER I LIKE FATHER LIKE SON Thou shalt never find a friend in thy young years, wrote Walter Raleigh, whose condition and qualities will please thee when thou comest to years of discretion. Human nature has not changed greatly since Sir Walter gave that advice. The case of William Howard Taft is the exception which proves the rule. Not only are many of Mr. Taft's youthful friendships still green and enduring, but among his earlier playmates, of the time when he was one of the Mt. Auburn crowd in his boyhood days, there are those who have always maintained the joyous relations then begun. When the friends of a man's boyhood are also the friends of his mature years there is something remarkable about that man. Even a cursory examination of the story of Will Taft reveals what it is about him that has so held his early friends. He is a man in years, experience and deeds, but his heart is still as light, his nature as sunny, his laugh as free and ready, his faith as true, as it was in the days of forty years ago when he captained the Gang in its descents upon the opposition hosts of Butchertown and Tailertown. The story of the boyhood of Mr. Taft is the story of his whole life. He is still Will to some of his friends, Bill to others, whose warming hearts are not affected by the frigidity of convention, and, best of all Old Bill to those whose intimacy with him began in their youth. The first American Tafts came of the English yeomanry. They were among the early settlers in the old Massachusetts Bay colony, whence they went, as did so many others who afterward reached distinction in the life of the new country, to Vermont. There Peter Rawson Taft, grandfather of William Howard, lived on a farm, in the year...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217656573
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217656579
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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