“The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding” is Ryan Walters’s new biography of the 29th president. Walters is adjunct professor of History at Collin College in Texas. His previous books include “Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President” and “Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon.”
Warren Harding has long been disparaged as a historically poor president – a man ill-suited to the intellectual and ethical demands of the office, possessing a defective moral compass and perennially plagued both personal and professional scandal.
In this newly-published defense of Harding’s legacy, Walters attempts to correct what he sees as an unfair appraisal of his subject’s character and presidential performance. While acknowledging the magnitude of his task, Walters argues that no one in possession of the facts can doubt Harding was at least a “good” chief executive.
With 189 pages of text, “The…
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