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The Teapot Dome Scandal. [How Big Oil Brought the Harding White House & Tried to Steal the Country]
by McCartney, Laton
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- Hardcover
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- 1400063167
- ISBN 13
- 9781400063161
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NY. Random House (c2008) HARDCOVER. Near Fine/Near Fine dj. (tiny tear on top spine edge, previous owner's pencilled name erased on half title page else a clean/tight/crisp copy. jacket complete/clean/crisp, creased along spine edges else no tears) 8vo. 8 pages of photographs. BOOK CLUB edition. No back cover dot, jacket unpriced. Includes Notes, Bibliography, & Index.
Synopsis
Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome.In The Teapot Dome Scandal, acclaimed author Laton McCartney tells the amazing, complex, and at times ribald story of how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his so-called "oil cabinet" made it possible for the oilmen to secure vast oil reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribed newspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt.When news of the scandal finally emerged, the consequences were disastrous for the nation and for the principles in the plot to bilk the taxpayers: Harding's administration was hamstrung; Americans' confidence in their government plummeted; Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was indicted, convicted, and incarcerated; and others implicated in the affair suffered similarly dire fates. Stonewalling by members of Harding's circle kept a lid on the story--witnesses developed "faulty" memories or fled the country, and important documents went missing--but contemporary records newly made available to McCartney reveal a shocking, revelatory picture of just how far-reaching the affair was, how high the stakes, and how powerful the conspirators. In giving us a gimlet-eyed but endlessly entertaining portrait of the men and women who made a tempest of Teapot Dome, Laton McCartney again displays his gift for faithfully rendering history with the narrative touch of an accomplished novelist.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- The Teapot Dome Scandal. [How Big Oil Brought the Harding White House & Tried to Steal the Country]
- Author
- McCartney, Laton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Near Fine dj. (tiny tear on top spine edge, previous owner's pencilled name erased on half title page else a clean
- ISBN 10
- 1400063167
- ISBN 13
- 9781400063161
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- NY.
- Date Published
- (c2008)
- Pages
- xiv. + 341pp.
- Keywords
- 20th Century American Political Scandals Republican Party History, Teapot Dome, Edward Doheny, Albert Fall, President Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge, Harry Sinclair, Thomas Walsh, US Naval Petroleum Reserves, American Oil Petroleum History
- Size
- 8vo.
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