Amicus

A Taftian Antidote to Trumpian Excesses?

What a most judicious past president can teach us about this moment.

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Amicus’ summer of exploring great legal writing continues this week with Jeff Rosen, whose biography of William Howard Taft reveals a president who was scrupulous in observing constitutional boundaries and much happier on the bench than in the White House.

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