My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
In this era of unfathomable computing power and data storage capacity it is hard to imagine such a concept as Too Much Information.
But despite the dearth of scholarly biographies focused on Harding, we seem to have learned far too much about him over the past 14 months. And little of what has been revealed is likely to improve his standing.
Historians have long considered Harding one of the two or three worst presidents in our nation’s history, and they’ve long known of his propensity for straying from his wife. But as a result of significant controversy and litigation, much of the written evidence was locked away – until recently.
On July 29, 2014 approximately 1,000 pages of “correspondence” between Harding and one of his mistresses (Carrie Phillips) were released to the public. These letters were written over a ten-year period and provide significant transparency into this relationship…
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