The Teapot Dome Scandal

In this amazing and at times ribald story Laton McCartney tells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding an obscure Ohio senator to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his oil cabinet made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange the oilmen paid off senior government officials bribed newspaper publishers and covered the GOP campaign debt. When news of the scandal finally emerged the consequences were disastrous. Drawing on contemporary records newly made available to McCartney The Teapot Dome Scandal reveals a shocking revelatory picture of just how far-reaching the affair was how high the stakes and how powerful the conspiratorsall told in a dazzling narrative style.