1920: The Year of the Six PresidentsBasic Books, 21 avr. 2009 - 240 pages 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: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. 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 nation -- automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring '20s. Award-winning historian David Pietrusza's riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots -- a picture of modern America at the crossroads. |
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Chapter 2 SOMETHING QUEER WAS HAPPENING 26 | 26 |
Chapter 3 I SEEM TO HAVE GONE TO PIECES 36 | 36 |
Chapter 4 HE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE 55 | 55 |
Chapter 5 A TURTLE ON A LOG 72 | 72 |
Chapter 6 I AM GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 90 | 90 |
Chapter 7 HE IS CERTAINLY A WONDER 105 | 105 |
Chapter 17 A GATHERING OF ASTEROIDS 282 | 282 |
Chapter 18 A MOTHERS ADVICE IS ALWAYS SAFEST 290 | 290 |
Chapter 19 BACK TO NORMAL 311 | 311 |
Chapter 20 A PRETTY GOOD CONSTITUTION 331 | 331 |
Chapter 21 WAKE UP ETHIOPIA 353 | 353 |
Chapter 22 WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING IS NOT A WHITE MAN 369 | 369 |
Chapter 23 PERVERTS BY OFFICIAL ORDERS 386 | 386 |
Chapter 24 IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE 397 | 397 |
Chapter 8 A TWENTIETHCENTURY APOLLO 122 | 122 |
Chapter 9 CRIMINAL INTRIGUES EVERYWHERE 140 | 140 |
Chapter 10 SUPERIOR BIOLOGIC VALUES 155 | 155 |
Chapter 11 THE FUNERAL BAKE MEATS 167 | 167 |
Chapter 12 A SAFE KIND OF LIBERAL 187 | 187 |
Chapter 13 RED FEATHERS TIN BEARS ANDCARDBOARD ORANGES 201 | 201 |
Chapter 14 WARREN HARDING IS THE BEST OFTHE SECONDRATERS 224 | 224 |
Chapter 15 THE GREATEST LIVING CHAMPION OF WATER 242 | 242 |
Chapter 16 CONVICT NO 9653 262 | 262 |
Chapter 25 POWER MUST FAIL 418 | 418 |
Chapter 26 FEAR ITSELF 435 | 435 |
Epilogue MALEVOLENT DETACHMENT 439 | 439 |
Notes 455 | 455 |
Bibliography 527 | 527 |
Acknowledgments 543 | 543 |
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