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Laddar... Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous Presidentav Carl Sferrazza Anthony
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is the definitive biography of Florence Harding. Though it drags in some places, the book tells the story of one of history's much-maligned first ladies. Carl Sferrazza Anthony does a good job in profiling a woman way ahead of her time. The book also gives us a fascinating account of Florence's relationships with two of Washington society's power houses, Evalyn Walsh McLean and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. I didn't expect to be so fascinated by a book about Florence Harding--but I was and I read the thing in under a week while reading two other books--and it's a big, comprehensive biog. Harding may have been our worst president ever; from my reading Hillary Clinton and Florence Harding could have been soul mates. One journalist of the time had this to say about Florence: "She was a little too mechanically marcelled, too shinily rouged and lipsticked, too trimly tailored. . . . Harding and his men friends always addressed her as Duchess." Being first lady did not improve her. She was "insecure, jealous, incessantly chatting, and forever losing the battle to keep her unfaithful husband nearby." It was said that Florence kept a little red book for purposes of retaliation, with the names of those who had not been civil to her. Anthony does a good job of putting the characters in the context of time and place. Reading this book makes me wish that today's journalists had a better grasp of history and could therefore make these interesting historical comparisons when writing about contemporary politicians. 3315. Florence Harding / The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (read May 31, 2000) Somewhat influenced by the book I read just before this one (This Was Normalcy, by Karl Schriftgiesser), when I saw this book (which somehow I missed hearing of [I think] when it came out in 1998), I decided to read it. I had enjoyed reading Francis Russell's biography of Harding when I read it in 1969. I found this book utterly absorbing reading. At least when it reaches the years of Harding's public life it is meticulously researched and well documented. The author finds good things to say for Harding's wife, but one cannot but be appalled by Harding and his private life and as a Democrat one wishes the press of that day had been as vigorously probing as the press has been with our present President. I think the author makes clear that Mrs. Harding did not intentionally cause her husband's death, but obviously the medical care he received was atrocious. I liked this book a lot, and it was a highlight of May's reading. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
A major new biography of the politically powerful forerunner of Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton. Florence Harding reveals the never-before-told story of First Lady Florence Harding's phenomenal rise to power. The daughter of an abusive father in small-town Ohio, mother at a young age to an illegitimate child, Florence Harding saw her escape in Warren Harding, and became the driving force behind his ascent to one of the most scandal-ridden presidencies in United States history. Preeminent First Ladies biographer Carl Sferrazza Anthony not only captures the drama of Florence Harding's personality, but he uses the White House to bring to life Jazz Age America -- a world of speakeasies and Miss America, Babe Ruth, Al Jolson, and the rise of Hollywood. He shows how Florence's friendship with Evalyn McLean, the morphine-addicted owner of the Hope Diamond and The Washington Post was one of the defining bonds in her public life. With newly unsealed medical information, Florence Harding finally unfolds the mystery of whether the First Lady poisoned the President, whose death occurred seventy-five years ago. Florence Harding is a fascinating and informative look at a lost chapter in American history. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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