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    PARADE OF PRESIDENTS

    Nov 27, 2018 2 minutes

    American Presidents series closes with this slim limning of the 27th president. William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was a lawyer, and this insightful, brief—137 pages—account by Rosen, law professor at George Washington University, admits that Taft was happiest as a judge and solicitor general before 1900, the

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