Mt anderson biography of taft

  • Anderson, William Howard Taft: An Intimate History (New York: W. W. Norton Some NPS historical research for Taft extended to the history of Mount.
  • This book deals with the impact of Taft's numerous inner conflicts and his decision-making ability--and, in particular, on his frequent failure to make.
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    Leonardo da Vinci is best known for the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Yet it’s possible his achievements in science even outstripped those monumental paintings. A hundred years before Francis Bacon (the “father” of the scientific method), da Vinci pioneered key concepts in anatomy, geology, and fluid dynamics by the uncommon means of observation and experiment.

    Perhaps the most extraordinary of all these was his investigation into how the human heart functioned. Remarkably, he made a glass model of a heart so he could better see how blood flowed. Some of his findings were not proven until five hundred years later. Even as late as 1960 scientists misunderstood some aspects. Only in 2014 was da Vinci conclusively shown to be correct.  

    How did da Vinci manage to be hundreds of years ahead of his time in so many different areas of science? That is the story Walter Isaacson tells in his fascinating biography, Leonardo da Vinci. Isaacson’s other biographies also focus o

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    NOTES

    Abbreviations used in the notes:

    Names

    AB

    Archibald Willingham Butt

    ARC

    Anna Roosevelt Cowles

    ARL

    Alice Roosevelt Longworth

    CRR

    Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

    DCT

    Delia Chapin Torrey

    EKR

    Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

    HCL

    Henry Cabot Lodge

    HHM

    Harriet Hurd McClure

    HHT

    Helen Herron Taft

    IMT

    Ida Minerva Tarbell

    JSP

    John Sanborn Phillips

    LS

    Lincoln Steffens

    LTT

    Louise Torrey Taft

    MAH

    Marcus Alonzo Hanna

    RBH

    Rutherford Birchard Hayes

    RHD

    Richard Harding Davis

    RLF

    Robert M. La Follette

    RSB

    Ray Stannard Baker

    TR

    Theodore Roosevelt

    TR, JR.

    Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

    UBS

    Upton Beall Sinclair

    WAW

    William Allen White

    WHT

    William Howard Taft

    WW

    Woodrow Wilson

    Journals and Collected Works

    LTR: Theodore Roosevelt, Elting E. Morison, John M. Blu

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    (a cell in the Hanoi Hilton, Hoa Lo Prison)

    For those individuals who were in awe of Laura Hillenbrand’s description of the imprisonment of Louis Zamperini in her book UNBROKEN, the emotions that you experienced will be repeated many times over should you choose to read Alvin Townley’s new book DEFIANT: THE POWS WHO ENDURED VIETNAM’S MOST INFAMOUS PRISON, THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT FOR THEM AND THE ONE WHO NEVER RETURNED.   Townley recreates the experiences of America’s POWs from the Vietnam War.  Instead of presenting a general account that encompasses all POWs, Townley focuses on eleven dock, who became known as the “Alcatraz eleven,” ten of whom returned from their ordeal and one who did not.  The author takes you inside the North Vietnamese prison system during the war as we follow each individual from their training, their war experiences, culminating in their being shot down over North Vietnam and their capture and imprisonment.  The men were imprisoned and tortured by their cap