Chief Executive to Chief Justice

As America's 27th president, and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court, William Howard Taft was the only man ever to lead two of America's three governing branches. But between these two periods in office, there lies an eight-year patch of largely unexplored political wilderness. In the first in-depth look at this period in Taft's career, Lewis L. Gould reveals how a man often derided for his lack of political acumen made his way through the hazards of Republican affairs to gain his objective.