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The Ohio Gang

The Ohio Gang

Mee, Charles L.

Paperback

Political BiographiesPresidents & Heads of State20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1590772873
ISBN13: 9781590772874
Publisher: M. Evans and Company
Published: Mar 3 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
When Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, he brought to Washington some of his political chums from Ohio. They played poker; they sold illegal liquor permits, pardons and paroles. They sold fixes in the Justice Department and transported contraband across state lines. They sold naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome and sheets out of Army warehouses.

The Ohio Gang, an historical entertainment peopled with the characters of the day, follows Harding and his cronies from their Ohio childhoods to the smoke-filled rooms of the Republican convention and on to the White House. We meet Henry Daugherty, the attorney general with the disconcerting eyes; Jess Smith, tall and pigeon-toed; Nan Britton, the teenage girl who fell in love with Harding's campaign posters and who later became his mistress and mother to his illegitimate daughter; and America's first lady, the Duchess. Following the antics of the president and his administration, The Ohio Gang concludes with Harding's whistle-stop tour of the country--his final, despairing attempt to keep his presidency from coming undone.

An entertaining and immensely readable encapsulation of democracy American-style, The Ohio Gang is an historical tour de force in which the presidency is seen as a traveling medicine show.

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