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.
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.
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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