HIST 15200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Perfect Crime, Scopes Trial, Nan Britton
16 Aug 2018
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Post world war 1 (con. : the politics of disillusionment, harding: 1920, warren harding of ohio runs against cox who was a progressive. America wanted a return to normalcy, before progressivism so they vote for harding. Not a great president at all, ranks low for list of us presidents. Hes nice but he drank and played poker even though drinking is illegal bc prohibition, smoked. He had a number of affairs w women other than his wife. Nan britton just graduated from hs when harding was senator. She wrote harding a letter about meeting her. They meet and then start an affair and this affair continued while he was in the white house. While he was president, nan gets pregnant and writes a book called, the presidents daughter . Sets a low bar for american presidents and america. His campaign is filled w scandal, most financial scandals.
