A foreign policy for Americans by TAFT, Robert A - 1951

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of A Foreign Policy for Americans, signed by Senator Robert A. Taft.. Octavo, 127pp. Blue cloth, title stamped on spine. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Booksellers label affixed to front free endpaper. Newspaper remnant to front endpapers and half title. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, wear to corners and top edge, bright illustrations, a very good example. Signed by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft on the front free endpaper. Senator Robert A. Taft (1889 - 1953) served as a United States Senator representing Ohio from 1939 until his death. Known for his conservative stance, Taft was part of the influential Taft political family and was the elder son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States. Taft sought the republican nomination for president in 1940, 1948 and 1952, eventually losing to General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. 127, [1] pages. Footnotes. DJ worn and chipped, DJ in plastic sleeve, bottom of front endpaper torn off & pencil erasure. Signed by the author on the fep. Major work by a leading conservative Republican and Presidential aspirant. Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the concept of right-to-work states, and regulated other labor practices. He was the elder son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United… Read More