The Life of Warren G. Harding
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN :
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN :
Author : Paul Joseph
Publisher : Checkerboard Library
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781577652342
A simple biography of the popular Senator from Ohio who was elected as twenty-ninth president of the United States in 1920.
Author : John W. Dean
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2004-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429997516
President Nixon's former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal Warren G. Harding may be best known as America's worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous revelation of an extramarital affair. Raised in Marion, Ohio, Harding took hold of the small town's newspaper and turned it into a success. Showing a talent for local politics, he rose quickly to the U.S. Senate. His presidential campaign slogan, "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy," gave voice to a public exhausted by the intense politics following World War I. Once elected, he pushed for legislation limiting the number of immigrants; set high tariffs to relieve the farm crisis after the war; persuaded Congress to adopt unified federal budget creation; and reduced income taxes and the national debt, before dying unexpectedly in 1923. In this wise and compelling biography, John W. Dean—no stranger to controversy himself—recovers the truths and explodes the myths surrounding our twenty-ninth president's tarnished legacy.
Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258941734
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Author : Heidi M.D. Elston
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1098212169
This biography introduces readers to Warren G. Harding including his early political career and key events from Harding's administration including the Teapot Dome scandal. Information about his childhood, family and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780756502751
A biography of the twenty-ninth president of the United States, discussing his personal life, education, and political career.
Author : Nan Britton
Publisher : New York, Elizabeth Ann guild, Incorporated
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Children of presidents
ISBN :
"If love is the only right warrant for bringing children into the world then many children born in wedlock are illegitimate and many born out of wedlock are legitimate." So contends Nan Britton in this account of Elizabeth Ann, her daughter by Warren G. Harding.
Author : Phillip G. Payne
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political corruption
ISBN : 0821418181
2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G. Harding, is our sinner. Prior to the Nixon administration, the Harding scandals were the most infamous of the twentieth century. Harding is consistently judged a failure, ranking dead last among his peers. By examining the public memory of Harding, Phillip G. Payne offers the first significant reinterpretation of his presidency in a generation. Rather than repeating the old stories, Payne examines the contexts and continued meaning of the Harding scandals for various constituencies. Payne explores such topics as Harding’s importance as a midwestern small-town booster, his rumored black ancestry, the role of various biographers in shaping his early image, the tension between public memory and academic history, and, finally, his status as an icon of presidential failure in contemporary political debates. Harding was a popular president and was widely mourned when he died in office in 1923; but with his death began the construction of his public memory and his fall from political grace. In Dead Last, Payne explores how Harding’s name became synonymous with corruption, cronyism, and incompetence and how it is used to this day as an example of what a president should not be.
Author : Rosemary Stevens
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2016-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1421421313
A look at what really happened in the U.S. Veterans’ Bureau Scandal in the 1920s. In the early 1920s, as the nation recovered from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded the U.S. Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs, to treat disabled veterans. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes, as founding director. Forbes lasted only eighteen months in the position before stepping down under a cloud of suspicion. In 1926—after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud the federal government by rigging government contracts—he was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Although he was known in his day as a drunken womanizer, and as a corrupt toady of a weak president, the question persists: was Forbes a criminal or a scapegoat? Historian Rosemary Stevens tells Forbes’s story anew, drawing on previously untapped records to reveal his role in America’s commitment to veterans. She explores how Forbes’s rise and fall in Washington illuminates Harding’s efforts to bring business efficiency to government. She also examines the scandal in the context of class, professionalism, ethics, and etiquette in a rapidly changing world. Most significantly, Stevens proposes a revisionist view of both Forbes and Harding: They did not defraud the government of billions and do not deserve the reputation they have carried for a hundred years. Packed with conniving friends, FBI agents, and rival politicians as well as gamblers, revelers, and wronged wives, A Time of Scandal will appeal to anyone interested in political gossip, presidential politics, the “Ohio Gang,” and the 1920s.
Author : Lewis K. Parker
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404230057
Provides an informative introduction to the life, times, and key achievements of Warren G. Harding while including step-by-step directions that allow readers to draw what they are learning.