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1) William Taft
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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This biography introduces readers to William Taft including his early political career and key events from Taft's administration including forming the US Children's Bureau and Arizona and New Mexico becoming states. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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English
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In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia. At the time, Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future on the continent. But these secret pacts lit the fuse that would--decades later--result in a number of devastating...
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English
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A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history....
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Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and term of William Howard Taft, twenty-seventh president of the United States. Includes a table of contents, time line, phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and detailed captions and sidebars to aid in comprehension.
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This collection includes Foulke's correspondence relating to civil service reform, the women's rights movement, Indiana and national Republican party politics, the Progressive Party in 1912 and 1916, American involvement in the Philippine Islands, his work on behalf of American preparedness in World War I, and his work with the League to Enforce Peace and the League of Nations. Copies of Foulke's extensive correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt regarding...
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Pub. Date
1849
Language
English
Description
This collection includes Foulke's correspondence relating to civil service reform, the women's rights movement, Indiana and national Republican party politics, the Progressive Party in 1912 and 1916, American involvement in the Philippine Islands, his work on behalf of American preparedness in World War I, and his work with the League to Enforce Peace and the League of Nations. Copies of Foulke's extensive correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt regarding...
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