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The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
The Teapot Dome Scandal How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Author: Laton Mccartney
Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome. — In The Teapot Dome Scandal, acclaimed author ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400063161
ISBN-10: 1400063167
Publication Date: 2/5/2008
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Ohio has had eight men elected to the highest american office. This book is about what is probably the biggest scandal for this office prior to the Nixon debacle. Details about significant cabinet level corruption centering on the department of the interior. Understandably not in the light reading category, it still of interest to students of presidential history.
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