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The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding by Ryan S. Walters
The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding by Ryan S. Walters
"Worst President Ever."
"Complete and dreadful nitwit."
If Warren G. Harding is remembered at all, it's as the Jazz Age president whose administration was plagued by scandal.
But now, in this groundbreaking and comprehensive history of his presidency, Ryan S. Walters gives Harding his due. He was no "idealist" like his predecessor, Woodrow Wilson. Nor did he believe in an "activist" government. Instead, he promised to restore peace, prosperity, and "normalcy" to the American people -- something we can appreciate today, given our own turbulent politics.
Inheriting a postwar depression, Harding turned it into an economic boom. On his watch personal prosperity soared and unemployment fell to 1.6 percent. He reversed Wilson's grandiose plans to hand over American sovereignty to ambitious internationalist organizations. He healed a nation in the throes of social disruption, releasing citizens imprisoned by the Wilson administration under the controversial Sedition Act of 1918 and using the bully pulpit to promote civil rights in the heyday of Jim Crow.
Far from being America's worst president, Warren G. Harding, the scrappy newspaperman from Marion, Ohio, should be remembered as the most underestimated and unfairly maligned president in American history. The Jazz Age President will change the way you look at Harding, the roaring twenties, and modern American politics.
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