{"product_id":"the-jazz-age-president-defending-warren-g-harding-9781621578840","title":"The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Presidents are ranked wrong. In \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding\u003c\/i\u003e, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up--and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCoolidge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a \"Worst Presidents\" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the \"Worst President Ever,\" \"Dead Last,\" \"Unfit,\" and \"Incompetent,\" to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a \"nitwit.\" To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a \"slob.\" Such is the current reputation of our 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding. In an interesting survey in 1982, which divided the scholarly respondents into \"conservative\" and \"liberal\" categories, \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e groups picked Harding as the worst President. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But historian Ryan Walters shows that Harding, a humble man from Marion, Ohio, has been unfairly remembered. He quickly fixed an economy in depression and started the boom of the Roaring Twenties, healed a nation in the throes of social disruption, and reversed America's interventionist foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regnery History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621578840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Ryan S. Walters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574309626037,"sku":"9781621578840","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_93919b12-7956-49f5-b785-56fa6c924992.jpg?v=1643692506","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-jazz-age-president-defending-warren-g-harding-9781621578840","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}