1920 The Year of the Six Presidents

Name: 1920 The Year of the Six Presidents
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ISBN: 9780786721023

ISBN-10: 0786721022

ISBN-13: 9780786721023

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Authors: David Pietrusza

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The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation's history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House. As people chose between the Wilsonian legacy of the League of Nations and Harding's more isolationist stand, this election would shape America's course in the twentieth century like no other. It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity--the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1--and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage. It was also the first election in which women could vote. Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban…

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List price: $25.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.13" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



The Players in Our Drama



"Discover a Common Hate"



"Something Queer Was Happening"



"I Seem to Have Gone to Pieces"



"He Is the Only Candidate"



"A Turtle on a Log"



"I Am Governor of Massachusetts"



"He Is Certainly a Wonder"



"A Twentieth-Century Apollo"



"Criminal Intrigues Everywhere"



"Superior Biologic Values"



"The Funeral Bake Meats"



"A 'Safe' Kind of Liberal"



"Red Feathers, Tin Bears, and Cardboard Oranges"



"Warren Harding Is the Best of the Second-Raters"



"The Greatest Living Champion of Water"



"Convict No. 9653"



"A Gathering of Asteroids"



"A Mother's Advice Is Always Safest"



"Back to Normal"



"A Pretty Good Constitution"



"Wake up, Ethiopia!"



"Warren Gamaliel Harding Is Not a White Man"



"Perverts by Official Orders"



"It Was an Earthquake"



"Power Must Fail"



"Fear Itself"


Epilogue: "Malevolent Detachment"


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index