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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: William Howard Taft, Robert Bork, William O. Douglas, Harold Hongju Koh, Aharon Barak, James Goodale, Linda Greenhouse, Clyde Summers, Nicholas Katzenbach, Dan Kahan, Joette Katz, Floyd Abrams, Martin Garbus, Reva Siegel, Jack Balkin, Guido Calabresi, John Forrest Dillon, Randolph E. Paul, John M. Walker, Jr., Thurman Arnold, Bruce Morrison, Jay Katz, Burke Marshall, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Arthur Allen Leff, Kenji Yoshino, Amy Chua, Akhil Reed Amar, Stephen L. Carter, John Hart Ely, Drew S. Days, III, Jonathan R. Macey, Bruce Ackerman, Harry Hillel Wellington, Charles A. Reich, Alexander Bickel, Harry Shulman, Myres S. McDougal, Ashbel Green Gulliver, Henry H. Fowler, Michael E. Levine, Boris Bittker, Kate Stith, John H. Langbein, Friedrich Kessler, Michael Wishnie, Robert Post, Stephen Wizner, Morris L. Cohen, Daniel C. Esty, Ellen Ash Peters, Arthur Linton Corbin, Barbara D. Underwood, Owen M. Fiss, Louis Loss, Wesley Alba Sturges, Charles Black, Jan Deutsch, Thomas Merrill, Robert Cover, Walton Hale Hamilton, Jules Coleman, Paul Gewirtz, Amos Botsford, Jed Rubenfeld, Grant Gilmore, Herschel Whitfield Arant, Ralph K. Winter, Jr., Laura DeNardis, George L. Priest, Paul W. Kahn, Francis Wayland III, Anthony T. Kronman, Marvin Chirelstein, Christine M. Jolls, William Eskridge. Excerpt: William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930). He is the only person to have served in both offices. Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, "Big Bill" graduated from Yale College Phi Beta Kappa in 1878 and from Cincinnati Law School in 1880. He worked in local nondescript legal positions until he was tapped to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1887. In 1890, Taft was...
