Taft v. Campbell

Although only one of them is a huge public spectacle, the first week of April is full of funerals. As dozens of dead are buried, finger-pointing begins. There will be three public inquiries, and William Howard Taft becomes the bulldog for both a Special Grand Jury and a Cincinnati Bar Association investigation into T.C. Campbell. For personal and partisan reasons, the National Guard and all the public officials are excluded from scrutiny, the blame for everything is laid at the feet of Campbell, and in an epic battle that gets increasingly personal, Taft pursues his white whale through both criminal bribery charges and a disbarment trial like none before it or since.