Teapot Dome Scandal How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

Name: Teapot Dome Scandal How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
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ISBN: 9780812973372

ISBN-10: 0812973372

ISBN-13: 9780812973372

Edition: 2009

Authors: Laton McCartney

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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. InThe Teapot Dome Scandal, acclaimed author Laton McCartney tells the amazing, complex, and at times ribald story of how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his so-called "oil cabinet" made it possible for the oilmen to secure vast oil reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.02" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Laton McCartney is the author of the national bestsellerFriends in High Places: The Bechtel Story–The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the WorldandAcross the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail.McCartney has written extensively on business, finance, and politics for many national magazines. He and his wife, Nancy, divide their time between Wyoming and New York. From the Hardcover edition.