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31:03Now PlayingPopok is joined by historian and author Walter Stahr about his new definitive biography on William Howard Taft, our only President and Chief Justice of the United States, and you won't believe on how Taft shaped the Supreme Court AND opposed a president's usurpation of power, a book that speaks to today's audience trying to make sense of the Trump assault on the rule of law.
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