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The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried...
by McCartney, Laton | HC | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781400063161
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1400063167
ISBN-13
9781400063161
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60672693
Product Key Features
Book Title
Teapot Dome Scandal : How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Corruption & Misconduct, Presidents & Heads of State, Petroleum
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-024396
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A terrific tale that resonates nearly a century on, at a time when many people are still wondering about the connections between Big Oil and politicians at the highest levels." Jon Meacham, author ofFranklin and Winston "This is a story that has it alla Jazz Age background, a pleasure-loving president surrounded by booze and chorus girls, boomtown capitalists from the Wild West, [and] conniving politicians. . . . [Laton McCartney has] a certain zest forTeapot's sordid comedy [and] delivers fresh, arresting portraits of the main players, some of them lovable rogues, others beady-eyed scoundrels." The New York Times "The most thorough treatment of the scandals to date." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Titillating, tantalizing . . . The book reads like a novel. McCartney's cast of characters jumps off the page." Baltimore Sun "A cautionary tale of what happens when corrupt and indifferent public officials give an industry undue influence over public policy." The Denver Post "Fascinating reading." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "A terrific tale that resonates nearly a century on, at a time when many people are still wondering about the connections between Big Oil and politicians at the highest levels." Jon Meacham, author ofFranklin and Winston "This is a story that has it alla Jazz Age background, a pleasure-loving president surrounded by booze and chorus girls, boomtown capitalists from the Wild West, [and] conniving politicians. . . . [Laton McCartney has] a certain zest forTeapot's sordid comedy [and] delivers fresh, arresting portraits of the main players, some of them lovable rogues, others beady-eyed scoundrels." The New York Times "The most thorough treatment of the scandals to date." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Titillating, tantalizing . . . The book reads like a novel. McCartney's cast of characters jumps off the page." Baltimore Sun "A cautionary tale of what happens when corrupt and indifferent public officials give an industry undue influence over public policy." The Denver Post "Fascinating reading." St. Louis Post-Dispatch From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
973.91/4
Synopsis
Business and finance author McCartney delivers a groundbreaking and, for the first time, comprehensive account of the 1922 Teapot Dome oil scandal--the biggest and most far-reaching scandal in the history of American politics., "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 fuel reserves that had been set aside for wartime 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 "family" 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."--BOOK JACKET.
LC Classification Number
E785.M38 2008
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