Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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. FOUNDATIONS OF 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 -- Toft'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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y