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Florence Harding

First Lady the Jazz Age and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President

by Carl Sferrazza Anthony

ISBN: 0688077943
ISBN-13: 9780688077945
Format: Hardcover

Summary

A biography of Florence Harding, the wife of a self-effacing newspaper editor named Warren Harding, whom Florence encouraged to enter politics. Eventually, the Hardings moved far enough past their small-town Ohio roots to occupy the White House, where Warren presided over one of the most scandal-ridden administrations in American history. In many ways a far more impressive figure than her husband, Florence was seen by many to have been the real force driving her husband's career, and after his death there were rumors that she had poisoned him to avoid the humiliation of impeachment.

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"A fascinating account of one of the most complex of all the political wives of this century."

   -- Kirkus

"Carl Sferrazza Anthony, however, has written a six hundred page book that is remarkably successful in rescuing Florence Harding from the fashionable obscurity to which she was early consigned, and in so doing he helps us to reexamine an era about which we mistakenly think we know all that we need to know, and allows it and his quite remarkable protagonist to rise above and beyond caricature."    -- Peter J. Gomes

   -- Boston Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.75 x 10 inches
Weight: 2.55 pounds
Pages: 645

Publisher's Notes

This biography reveals the never-before-told story of First Lady Florence Harding's phenomenal rise to power. Carl Sferrazza Anthony not only recounts the drama of Florence Harding's personality but uses the White House to bring to life Jazz Age America. He shows how Florence's friendship with Evalyn McLean, the morphine-addicted owner of the Hope Diamond and The Washington Post, was one of the defining bonds in her public life. Drawing on newly declassified FBI documents, Florence's recently discovered diary, and many other sources, Anthony offers a penetrating reanalysis of the Teapot Dome scandal and the "intimidation squad" used to silence Harding's political opponents, as well as shocking revelations about Harding's involvement with mistresses, including love letters the President wrote. And Anthony reopens the investigation into the legend that Florence Harding poisoned the President seventy-five years ago, with eye-opening conclusions.

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