About Walter
After more than two decades as a lawyer, Walter Stahr started writing books about American leaders. His biographies of John Jay, William Henry Seward and Edwin Stanton have earned praise and awards, and he is now at work on Salmon Chase, antislavery activist, treasury secretary and chief justice.
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I realize that I have not posted an update on William Howard Taft in a while. I am now writing chapters of the Taft book, about to put pen to paper on 1915. I am in the “Yale years,” the years between the White House and the Supreme Court, filled with interesting episodes, such as…