Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Preface
- List of Cases
- Prologue Mr. Taft Takes Charge
- Part I Constructing the Taft Court: Appointments
- Part II The Holdover Justices
- Part III The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
- 9 Taft’s Health
- 10 Taft as a Justice
- 11 Myers v. United States
- 12 The Conference of Senior Circuit Court Judges
- 13 Reshaping the Supreme Court
- 14 The Changing Role of Chief Justice
- 15 The Chief Justice as Chancellor
- 16 Lobbying for Judicial Appointments
- 17 Creating a New Supreme Court Building
- Part IV The Taft Court as an Institution
- Part V Social and Economic Legislation
- Part VI The Positive Law of Prohibition
- Part VII Federalism and the American People
- Part VIII Labor, Equal Protection, and Race
- Index
9 - Taft’s Health
from Part III - The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Preface
- List of Cases
- Prologue Mr. Taft Takes Charge
- Part I Constructing the Taft Court: Appointments
- Part II The Holdover Justices
- Part III The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
- 9 Taft’s Health
- 10 Taft as a Justice
- 11 Myers v. United States
- 12 The Conference of Senior Circuit Court Judges
- 13 Reshaping the Supreme Court
- 14 The Changing Role of Chief Justice
- 15 The Chief Justice as Chancellor
- 16 Lobbying for Judicial Appointments
- 17 Creating a New Supreme Court Building
- Part IV The Taft Court as an Institution
- Part V Social and Economic Legislation
- Part VI The Positive Law of Prohibition
- Part VII Federalism and the American People
- Part VIII Labor, Equal Protection, and Race
- Index
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- The Taft CourtMaking Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930, pp. 377 - 386Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023