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ROBERT A. TAFT ROBERT A. TAFT Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U S . Foreign Policy CLARENCE E. WUNDERLIN SR BOOKS ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Oxford ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com PO Box 317 Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright © 2005 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wunderlin, Clarence E. Robert A. Taft : ideas, tradition, and party in US. foreign policy / Clarence E. Wunderlin. p. cm. — (Biographies in American foreign policy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7425-4489-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-74254490-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953.2. Taft, Robert A. (Robot Alphonso), 1889-1953—Political and social views. 3. Legislators—United States—Biography. 4. United States. Congress. Senate—Biography. 5. United States—Foreign relations— 1933-1945.6. United States—Foreign relations—1945-1953.7. United States—Politics and government—1933-1953.8. Conservatism—United States—History—20th century. 9. Nationalism—United States—History—20th century. 10. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )—History—20th century. I. Title. H. Series. E748.T2W86 2005 328.73'0972—dc22 2004023941 Printed in the United States of America @™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. To Ann Contents Acknowledgments, xi Chronology, xiii Introduction, 1 1 Education of a Senator, 9 2 The Fight Against Intervention, 33 3 Wartime Debates, Postwar Vision, 71 4 Critic of Postwar Liberalism, 107 5 Cold Warrior, 143 6 Mr. Republican, 177 7 Conclusion, 207 Bibliographical Essay, 219 Index, 229 About the Author, 243 Acknowledgments Elsewhere, I have already thanked those who assisted me in the researching, annotating, publishing, and, of course, paying for, the four-volume, selective edition of Senator Taft's papers. They have included numerous archivists and curators, especially the expert staff at the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library of Congress, who helped me assemble the evidence eventually used for this short biog raphy. In addition, I owe a debt of gratitude to the graduate students at Kent State University's Department of History who assisted me on the editorial project. In particular, I wish to thank David E. Settje and Robin L. Bowden, keen students of post-World War II U.S. cultural history, who pushed me to see the centrality of Taft's post-Czech coup anticommunism. Neither the editing project nor this biography would have been completed without the financial assistance of the Ohio Board of Regents, the Louise Taft Semple Foundation, and, most importantly, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Finally, I wish to thank my wife and colleague at Kent State, Ann Heiss, to whom this book is dedicated, for putting up with me and Bob Taft for diese past six years. Several scholars have assisted me in constructing this life of Senator Robert A. Taft. Settje and Bowden, who commented on earlier portions of the manuscript, were instrumental in formulating its final arguments. Ann Heiss read, edited, and commented on the entire manuscript. Andy Fry, the series editor, and Walter Hixson of die University of Akron read the manuscript very closely and challenged me to improve the work. Professor Fry's "aggressive" editing has cer tainly improved die book in numerous ways. One final note on the business of publishing. I want to thank Andy Fry and all those at Rowman & Litdefield Publishers for smoothing out the transition of this project from its inception with SR Books, Inc., to its completion under the R&L imprint. xi
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