Format:
XVIII, 202 Seiten
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1 Porträt
Edition:
First Edition
ISBN:
9780805069563
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0805069569
Series Statement:
The American presidents series
Content:
"During his presidency, Warren G. Harding was beloved. His presidential campaign slogan, "Not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy," gave voice to a public exhausted by World War I. Harding inherited a White House in disarray after President Woodrow Wilson's debilitating stroke. He promised the American people that, under his watch, life and governance would once again be manageable." "His first priority was to bolster the economy, which had spiraled into recession after the end of the war. Despite his pro-business record as a U.S. senator and successful newspaper publishers in his hometown of Marion, Ohio, Harding became a self-styled populist. While he signed legislation limiting the number of immigrants in a tight labor market, he made exceptions for hard-luck cases
Content:
He placed the executive branch on a sound business footing with a new Bureau of the Budget, which succeeded in cutting expenditures by
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It was the Teapot Dome affair - in which the interior secretary had opened national oil reserves to private companies in exchange for alleged bribes - that made his name synonymous with scandal. Sensational headlines, congressional hearings, and criminal proceedings continued for a decade. Harding's ruin was sealed when a dubious tell-all memoir claimed that the president had had an extra-marital affair and had fathered an illegitimate daughter." "In this biography, John W. Dean - no stranger to presidential controversy himself - gives us a portrait of a man who succeeded in reestablishing order in the nation, struggled to keep order in his own administration, and literally gave his life to the presidency."--BOOK JACKET
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Harding, Warren G. 1865-1923
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Biografie
URL:
Publisher description
Author information:
Dean, John W. 1938-
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