The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding Walters Ryan S.
The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding Walters Ryan S. He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most…
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The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding Walters Ryan S.
He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Historians have labeled him the "Worst President Ever," "Dead Last," "Unfit," and "Incompetent," to name but a few.
In an interesting survey in 1982, which divided the scholarly respondents into "conservative" and "liberal" categories, both groups picked Harding as the worst President.But historian Ryan Walters shows that Harding, a humble man from Marion, Ohio, has been unfairly remembered. Mencken called him a "nitwit." To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a "slob." Such is the current reputation of our 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding. He quickly fixed an economy in depression and started the boom of the Roaring Twenties, healed a nation in the throes of social