McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal (2008)

Laton McCartney.
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country.
New York: Random House, 2008.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information, Book Reviews, Video:

• Laton McCartney, WyoFile.
• Laton McCartney. Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. New York: Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House), 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laton McCartney. Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail. New York: Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Grimes, "There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age," The New York Times, 13 February 2008.
• Laton McCartney, "The Teapot Dome Scandal," Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado, BookTV, C-SPAN, 27 May 2008.
• Laton McCartney and Geoff O'Gara, "The Teapot Dome Scandal," Wyoming Chronicle, WyomingPBS, 23 October 2009.

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Wikipedia Articles, etc.:

• Ron J. Jackson, Jr., "Deadly affair," The Oklahoman and NewsOK, December 2013.
  Article on the death of Jacob Louis "Jake" Hamon (1873-1920).
• Boies Penrose (1860–1921), boss of the Pennsylvania Republican machine; U.S. Senator 1897–1921.
• 1920 Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 1920.
• United States presidential election, 1920, Harding versus Cox.
• Presidency of Warren G. Harding.
• Ohio Gang.
• Little Green House on K Street.
• Teapot Dome scandal.
• Jess Smith (1871–1923).
• Harry M. Daugherty (1860–1941), 1920 Harding campaign manager; U.S. Attorney General 1921-1924.
• Albert B. Fall (1861–1944), Attorney General of New Mexico Territory; U.S. Senator from New Mexico 1912-1921; U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1921-1923.
• Edwin Denby (1870–1929), Secretary of the Navy 1921–1923.
• Harry Ford Sinclair (1876–1956), founder of Sinclair Oil Corporation in 1916.
• Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935).
However, in addition to the various corrupt and incompetent members of the Harding administration (the focus of McCartney's book), the Harding cabinet also included some of the most competent and distinguished people ever to serve in government:
• Andrew Mellon (1855–1937), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1921–1932.
• Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948), U.S. Secretary of State 1921–1925.
• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1921–1928.

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You can read better books on the Harding administration and its various scandals. McCartney's book is very narrowly focused on the Teapot Dome Scandal; it is not a political or economic history of the era and, I think, is warped by the author's generally anti-business, and particularly anti-oil industry, biases.

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Allen, Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America (1940)

Frederick Lewis Allen.
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939.
New York: Harper & Row, 1940.
New York: HarperCollins, 1986.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Archive.org; Amazon.com.

(The dates in the book title refer to: (1) the peak of the 1920s stock market boom and thus to the beginning of the 1929 stock market crash and the following Depression; (2) the British declaration of war on Germany after Germany's invasion of Poland.)

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Author Information:

• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954), Wikipedia.
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine (subscription required).
• Frederick Lewis Allen. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1931. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Hypertext version at University of Virginia, American Studies; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Only Yesterday is here.
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Lords of Creation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Open Road Media, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Open Road Media, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993. London: Routledge, 1993.
  [Publisher, Routledge; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on The Big Change is here.

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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

I collected links to videos on the 1930s in C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" series in my post for Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Interwar period.
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• 1930s.
• Economic history of the United States: From 1929 through World War II.
• Technological and industrial history of the United States.
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• Presidency of Herbert Hoover, March 1929 - March 1933.
• United States presidential election, 1932, Roosevelt versus Hoover.
• Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
• United States presidential election, 1936, Roosevelt versus Landon.
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• Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• Great Depression.
• Causes of the Great Depression.
• Great Depression in the United States.
• New Deal.
• Dust Bowl.
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• List of years in literature: 1930s
• A novel mentioned several times by Allen, now obscure or even forgotten, but a bestseller during 1933 and 1934:
  Anthony Adverse (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) by Hervey Allen (1889–1949);
  made into the film Anthony Adverse (1936).
  [Amazon.com.]
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s.

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Some books referenced by Allen in Since Yesterday:

• Theodore G. Joslin. Hoover Off the Record. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton. The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert S. Lynd and‎ Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company), 1982.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charles A. Beard and Mary Beard. America in Midpassage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.com with slipcase.]
• Raymond Moley. After Seven Years. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939.
  [PDF at the Mises Institute; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931)

Frederick Lewis Allen.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s.
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (HarperCollins), 2010.
First published: New York: Harper & Row, 1931.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Hypertext version at University of Virginia, American Studies; Amazon.com.

(I previously read Only Yesterday during 2013; that post is here. I re-read it as preparation for reading Allen's Since Yesterday.)

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Author Information:

• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954), Wikipedia.
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine (subscription required).
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Lords of Creation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Open Road Media, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939. New York: Harper & Row, 1940. New York: HarperCollins, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Open Road Media, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993. London: Routledge, 1993.
  [Publisher, Routledge; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on The Big Change is here.

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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

I collected links to videos on the 1920s in C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" series in my post for Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Roaring Twenties.
• 1920s.
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• List of years in literature: 1920s
• Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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