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Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War Hardcover - 2009

by James David Robenalt; Foreword by John W. Dean

Robenalt's comprehensive study of Warren Harding's newly discovered personal letters is set in a narrative that weaves in a real-life spy story with the story of Harding's not accidental rise to the presidency.


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Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their relationship would play out against one of the greatest wars in world history--the First World War. Harding would become a Senator with the power to vote for war; Mrs. Phillips and her daughter would become German agents, spying on a U. S. training camp on Long Island in the hopes of gauging for the Germans the pace of mobilization of the U. S. Army for entry into the battlefields in France.

Based on over 800 pages of correspondence discovered in the 1960s but under seal ever since in the Library of Congress, The Harding Affair will tell the unknown stories of Harding as a powerful Senator and his personal and political life, including his complicated romance with Mrs. Phillips. The book will also explore the reasons for the entry of the United States into the European conflict and explain why so many Americans at the time supported Germany, even after the U. S. became involved in the spring of 1917.

James David Robenalt's comprehensive study of the letters is set in a narrative that weaves in a real-life spy story with the story of Harding's not accidental rise to the presidency.

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  • Title Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War
  • Author James David Robenalt; Foreword by John W. Dean
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
  • Date 2009-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780230609648 / 0230609643
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.42 x 1.35 in (24.13 x 16.31 x 3.43 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
  • Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, World War, 1914-1918 - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009015910
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.91

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/18/2009, Page 16
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2009, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2009, Page 126
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/13/2009, Page 48

About the author

James Robenalt is a partner in Thomson Hine LLP, a law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. He was born and raised not far from Harding's hometown in western Ohio, and comes from a family of leading Ohio Democrats. John W. Dean is a former Nixon White House counsel and the author of nine other books, including Pure Goldwater, Worse than Watergate, Conservatives without Conscience, and Broken Government. He has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MSNBC, Salon, and many other publications. He also writes a biweekly column for FindLaw.com. He lives in Los Angeles.

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