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Robert A. Taft - 1945-1948 (Papers of Robert A. Taft) - 9780873387644 - V9780873387644
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1945-1948 (Papers of Robert A. Taft)

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Description for 1945-1948 (Papers of Robert A. Taft) Hardcover. This volume documents Robert A. Taft's experiences through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reelection battle as Senator from Ohio in 1944, Taft moved steadily upward in the leadership ranks of his conservative party. Num Pages: 584 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JJP; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; HBWQ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1025.
This third volume in the series documents Robert A. Taft's experiences through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reelection battle as senator from Ohio in 1944, Taft moved steadily upward in the leadership ranks of his party and assumed a preeminent position among the bipartisan group of conservatives that increasingly dominated Congress. Taft was most widely known for his leadership of the postwar effort to revise federal labor law. In 1947 he cosponsored the Taft-Hartley Act, the single most important piece of labor legislation passed in the aftermath of World War II. These amendments to the 1935 National Labor Relations Act defined ""unfair"" union practices, banned closed shops, and authorized court injunctions that would delay strikes that harmed national security by imposing an eighty-day cooling-off period. In the immediate postwar years Taft recognized the need for federal aid to education, social welfare legislation that assisted the poor, and federal support for public housing. The senator campaigned vigorously for education-assistance legislation (which failed to pass the House of Representatives) and cosponsored the Taft-Wagner-Ellender Housing Act to subsidize residential construction. This volume continues the contribution that The Papers of Robert A. Taft provides to the study of United States political and diplomatic history, Ohio history, and conservative political theory.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873387644
SKU
V9780873387644
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About Robert A. Taft
Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr. is associate professor of history at Kent State University. He is the author of Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era and coeditor with Larry I. Bland and Sharon R. Ritenour of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, Volume 2

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