Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923 Twarda oprawa – 7 stycznia 2004
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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.
- Długość wersji drukowanej224 str.
- WydawcaTimes Books
- Data publikacji7 stycznia 2004
- Wymiary13.97 x 1.57 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-100805069569
- ISBN-13978-0805069563
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O autorze
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., (1917-2007) was the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he was a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He won two Pulitzer prizes for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days (1966), and in 1988 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in the Twentieth Century, in 2000.
Szczegóły produktu
- Wydawca : Times Books (7 stycznia 2004)
- Twarda oprawa : 224 str.
- ISBN-10 : 0805069569
- ISBN-13 : 978-0805069563
- Wymiary : 13.97 x 1.57 x 21.59 cm
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I saw him plugging this book on a weekend cable show and he was a wonderful salesman, the book was a disappointment.
Maybe Harding did accomplish some things that historians have neglected. Part of that was due to fate, part due to his untimely passing.
But he was as vanilla and middle-of-the-road as you can get. His desire to return to "normalcy" after WW I ignored the changes that were going on in the country at the time.
Dean chooses not to talk very much of the marriage between Harding and his wife, despite the fact that Harding was considered a womanizer, something Dean admits to in passing. Perhaps if we knew more about his marriage, we would be able to understand that better.
In a nutshell, Dean defends Harding the same way he defended Richard Nixon.
I took off a star on my rating for the terrible presentation of the book. The typeface was not very legible, there were typos throughout and there was not one solitary picture throughout the book.