{"product_id":"9781621578840-the-jazz-age-president","title":"The Jazz Age President","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDefending Warren G. Harding\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535919882614,"sku":"9781621578840","price":16.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36017159.jpg?v=1774283464","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781621578840-the-jazz-age-president","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}