From The Author

Dear automobile friends,

I am glad to announce the upcoming release of my book, William Howard Taft & the First Motoring Presidency, 1909-1913. As of 1:30 a.m., June 6 (D-Day!) proofs are proofed, indexes are indexed, and we're a short road to printing, out in late July or so. You are hereby invited to join this adventure with a pre-publication deal from my publisher. I can offer advance purchases to you at $35, down from the regular price of $49.95. (See below for book details).

If you want a copy, or five, please confirm your orders now, as I won't be able to offer this discount again, and most importantly, I only have a week or so to get these orders in. Sorry, I'm just an author. They own me. I do as told.

If you would like, deserve, or otherwise think you ought get away with a REVIEW COPY, please let me know, and I will submit your name to my publisher.

You are, of course, welcome to buy the book for fifty bucks later. I’d rather send it to you cheaper and now. And you should, too, for I’ll hound you for an order later, anyway. Please do share this with anyone you think might have an interest, you know, your parents, cousins, bosses, co-workers, old history professors, and all your casual acquaintances.

Please add three bucks for shipping, so that makes it $38.00

Send checks to:

Michael L. Bromley
6303 Rockhurst Road
Bethesda, MD 20817

[Please advise me via email if you are sending a check so that I may tell the publisher of your order while we wait on the Post Office]

Credit card orders: secure on-line payment via PayPal at my website:

William Howard Taft Pages

I’ll sign books as desired.

Thanks!

Bromley

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P.S. I am offereing a double dip of the Taft book and my book on limousines, Stretching It: the Story of the Limousine, for $65 for the pair. Great deal!

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About the book:

The book is library-quality case-bound, approx. 450 pages, 50+ photographs (ISBN 0-7864-145-8). Don't fret: that's 369 pages of text, plus glossaries, appendices and over fifty photographs. I guarantee an easy, fun read.

Three years in the making, the book is a narrative of the Taft presidency woven around his relationship to the automobile. It's an easy read, a good book, and, by my best hopes, a useful book. It's a little rehabilitation of Taft's legacy, a little kick in Teddy Roosevelt's thick hide, and a celebration of the automobile. It is not a car book. It is political history that covers a time when automobiles were entirely political, and it tells the story of the man who made automobiles normal. While Henry Ford made the right car, Taft made it the right time. Without it, Ford would have been just another Charles Duryea. Remember him?

Above all, the book is American history. Fundamental questions of self-government and democracy were re-formulated during this time, a time I've labelled the “Third American Revolution.” It was a unique and important time. In this book you will find the story of the man who in his day defined America as much as any other -- as much as Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.

See my website for more & for Taft stories, photos and good fun.