INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION INTRODUCTORY NOTE I. A POLITICIAN OF PRINCIPLE Taft's Memory Ohio Politics The Face of the New Deal From Cincinnati to Washington II. FOUNDATIONSOF DEMOCRACY First Months in the Senate Practical Alternatives Debates with T. V. Smith A Reputation for Probity III. THE STRUGGLE FOR RESPONSIBLE PARTY Statesmanship through Partisanship A Party in the Wilderness Taft's Understanding of Party The Republican Dilemma IV. LIBERTY UNDER LAW The Shadow of the Total State Liberty and Order Civil Rights and Civil Responsibilities Universal Military Training The Moral Basis of Freedom V. THE RESTRAINT OF POWER The Primacy of Justice Taft against the Executive Force The Contest with President Truman Congress and Foreign Affairs The United States and Nuremberg Justice The Future of Justice and Freedom VI.

ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST Justice, Power, and American Labor An Enemy of Labor? The Freedom of Labor and the Railroad Strike The Taft-Hartley Act Successful Defense of the Taft-Hartley Act An Enduring Work of Equity VII. AN ECONOMY HUMANE AND FREE The Charitable Society and the Socialist State Equality of Opportunity in Education The Nation's Health and Socialized Medicine Federal Aid in Housing The Credo of an Humane Politician VIII. A FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICANS An Isolationist? Confronting War and Imperialism The Struggle against Communist Arms and Ideology Taft in Retrospect IX. TAFT AND PERMANENCE A TAFT CHRONOLOGY Index.