Saturday, January 27, 2018

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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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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Saturday, January 13, 2018

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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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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Friday, January 05, 2018

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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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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