Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia: The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods

by James Taft Stever, Margo Taft Stever, Hong Shen

In 1900, Cincinnatian William Howard Taft successfully completed his tenure as Dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law and began an appointment under President William McKinley as Governor-General of the Philippines. As a federal administrator and diplomat, Taft negotiated amicable trade and cultural interactions between East and West, and in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched him on a mission to China, Japan, and the Philippines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939710227
• ISBN13: 9781939710222
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Cincinnati Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.1"