THE UNITED STATES AND PEACE
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's dark blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt; xii, 182 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "For J. D. Green Esq./with best wishes/Wm H Taft/March 22 1927." In this book, published one year after leaving the Presidency, Taft describes the League to Enforce Peace which he founded after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. A leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party, Taft was a pioneer in international arbitration and a staunch advocate of world peace. Rather faint stains and soiling to covers. Near Fine. Item #020666
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