This volume documents Robert Taft's first term in the United States Senate and marks his entrance onto the national political and policymaking stage.

Robert A. Taft, the son of president and chief justice William H. Taft, was one of the twentieth-century's most prominent conservative American legislators. Fir

Lewis L. Gould's 2003 history of the Republican Party was a fast-paced account of Republican fortunes. The Republicans won praise for its even-handed, incisive

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, deployed a tactic Chris Tudda calls “rhetorical diplomacy”— sounding a bell