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The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. For the only time in the nation’s history, six once-and-future presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Woodrow Wilson: Add a description of this character.
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- William Gibbs Mcadoo
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Hiram Johnson
- Eugene V. Debs
- Frank Lowden
- A. Mitchell Palmer
- Herbert Hoover
- Harry Daugherty
- William Howard Taft
- Josephus Daniels
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Joe Tumulty
- Al Smith
- Marion
- William Jennings Bryan
- Leonard Wood
- Grayson
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Edith Bolling Wilson
- Boies Penrose
- Will Hays
- William Allen White
- Robert La Follette
- Heywood Broun
- Marshall
- Mark Sullivan
- Davis
- Christensen
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Ohio
- Washington
- Chicago
- United States
- White House
- America
- Massachusetts
- California
- New Jersey
- Illinois
- Germany
- Tennessee
- San Francisco
- Georgia
- Pennsylvania
- Europe
- Boston
- Indiana
- France
- Paris
- Manhattan
- Atlanta
- Vermont
- Kansas
- Texas
- Russia
- Dayton
- Florence
- Wisconsin
- Colonel House
- Wall Street
- Princeton
- Oklahoma
- North Carolina
- Connecticut
- Kentucky
- Tammany
- North Dakota
- Oregon
- West Virginia
- Haiti
- Philadelphia
- South Dakota
- Newport
- Missouri
- Iowa
First Sentence edit
The President of the United States lay bleeding on the bathroom floor.
Table of Contents edit
The Players in Our Drama
1. "Discover a Common Hate"
2. "Something Queer Was Happening"
3. "I Seem to Have Gone to Pieces"
4. "He is the Only Candidate"
5. "A Turtle on a Log"
6. "I am Governor of Massachusetts"
7. "He is Certainly a Wonder"
8. "A Twentieth-Century Apollo"
9. "Criminal Intrigues Everywhere"
10. "Superior Biologic Values"
11. "The Funeral Bake Meats"
12. "A 'Safe' Kind of Liberal"
13. "Red Feathers, Tin Bears, and Cardboard Oranges"
14. "Warren Harding is the Best of the Second-Raters"
15. "The Greatest Living Champion of Water"
16. "Convict No. 9653"
17. "A Gathering of Asteroids"
18. "A Mother's Advice is Always Safest"
19. "Back to Normal"
20. "A Pretty Good Constitution"
21. "Wake Up, Ethiopia!"
22. "Warren Gamaliel Harding is Not a White Man"
23. "Perverts by Official Orders"
24. "It Was an Earthquake"
25. "Power Must Fail"
26. "Fear Itself"
Epilogue: "Malevolent Detachment"
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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Authors & Contributors edit
- David Pietrusza (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Caroll & Graf Publishers
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780786716227
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Caroll & Graf Publishers
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780786716227
Page Count: Add the page count.
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 324.9730913
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › 1900s-1920s
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › United States › Executive Branch
- Books › History › Historical Study › Revolutionary
- Books › Nonfiction › Government › Elections
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political History
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