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Primary sources

• Butt, Archie (1930).Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company., military aide to Taft
• Republican campaign text-book 1912 (1912)online
• Taft, William Howard
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  • Our Chief Magistrate and his Powers. New York City:Columbia University Press. 1916.
  • Popular Government. New Haven:Yale University Press. 1913.
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  • The Anti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court. New York City:Harper & Brothers. 1914.
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• William Howard Taft at theBiographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of theFederal Judicial Center.