Easton Press: PRESIDENT WARREN HARDING: OHIO: TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL U.S. SENATOR

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Seller: arkmo ✉️ (10,157) 99.9%, Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 296289571632 Easton Press: PRESIDENT WARREN HARDING: OHIO: TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL U.S. SENATOR. Easton Press leather edition of Francis Russell's "The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS series, published in 2000. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, a satin book marker, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a blank attached bookplate on inside fly leaf. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. Warren G. Harding, who lived from 1865-1923, was a small-town Ohio politician and newspaper publisher. Drop-dead handsome, Harding was 6" tall, with soft gray eyes,  molded pecs and abs and a thick hairy chest and very dark skinned; indeed, he was often thought to have "Negro blood" and his high school buddies--- because of his "olive skin"--- called him "Nig" and said when they swam nude in Whetstone Creek that Harding was a "man's man!" [Harding later admitted that one of his relatives "may have jumped the fence.] Harding had been one to avoid fisticuffs, but he was ready to "mop up the street" when anyone challenged his blood. Harding attended Ohio Central College in 1880 and later taught school. In 1891, Harding married divorcee FLORENCE M. KLING, daughter of a prominent local family. At age 25, Harding had met his match in "Flossie."  He had developed a swatch of gray hair above his forehead and a dusting of white at his temples.   The effect was to refine his good looks, even to accentuate his virility.  Women, especially young girls, were drawn to his blatant maleness. Flossie wooed him with all the tenacity she had inherited from her father---who forbade her to see Warren. Harding was flattered by Flossie's attentions but he never loved her.  Perhaps more importantly, Harding was planning to run for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and knew a married man got more votes. Harding was elected a U.S. Senator and later served as the 29th President of the U.S., 1921-23.  Richard Hofstadter said Harding was "a thoroughly native type, handsome, genial, kindly ignorant, complacent, weak, a model of normal mediocrity." But in 1920, Americans had had enough of Wilson's autocratic style of leadership. Harding made a big mistake when he took his "Ohio gang" to D.C., where they continued drinking whiskey, playing poker, and helping Harding hide his love affair with the young NAN BRITTON with whom he fathered a child. Then-Senator Harding was over 50 and she was a 20-year old virgin.  The tryst between Harding and Britton lasted six years, into Harding's presidency. Britton says they had sex on Harding Senate office couch (where Britton said the baby was conceived) and often in a White House closet in the anteroom. When Harding died, Britton found herself without financial support for the baby and wrote the tell-all book. There is one woman Harding didn't bed---his wife Florence, about whom he said, "there isn't one iota of affection in my home relationship. Harding referred to his penis as "Jerry" in his letters to Carrie Phillips.  Long after the Teapot Dome Scandal had faded from the American consciousness, "Jerry" is still very much a part of it.   When Britton published her book that described with great details their love making, the book led to the chant:  "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?  Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!" 100 years later, Francis Russell discovered a hidden cache of love letters written by Harding throughout his life to CARRIE PHILLIPS, another long-time lover and wife of one of his closest friends. But most damaging to Harding reputation was the infamous TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL. Albert Ball, Harding's Secretary of Interior," in exchange for a $100,000 "loan," had secretly leased to HARRY F. SINCLAIR, a prominent oil man, a lease on a naval oil reserve.  Although Harding was not involved, he was demoralized by the affair. His father one told Harding that it was a good thing he was not a woman because he would be in the family way all the time because he "couldn't say no."  691 pages, including an index.  I offer combined shipping.
  • Condition: Near FINE condition: Notes included
  • Binding: Leather
  • Signed: No
  • Publisher: Easton Press
  • Subject: Biography & Autobiography
  • Year Printed: 1988
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Language: English
  • Illustrator: Period photographs
  • Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
  • Region: Ohio & Washington, D.C.
  • Author: Francis Russell
  • Personalized: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Topic: Warren Harding Presidential History
  • Character Family: Harding and NAN BRITTON his lover

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