The Teapot Dome Scandal, Laton McCartney
The Teapot Dome Scandal, Laton McCartney
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The Teapot Dome Scandal
How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

Author: Laton McCartney

Narrator: William Hughes

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

The Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s was all about oilhundreds of millions of dollars worth of petroleum. When the scandal finally broke, the consequences were tremendous. President Harding's legacy was forever tarnished, while Oil Cabinet member Albert Fall was forced to resign and imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the affair suffered prison terms, mental hospitals, suicide, and even murder. The Republican Party and the oilcompany CEOs scrambled to cover their tracks and were mostly successful. Key documents mysteriously disappeared; important witnesses suffered sudden losses of memory. Though a special investigation was authorized, the scope of the wrongdoing was contained by administration stonewalling. But newly surfaced information indicates that the scandal was even bigger than originally thought.

About Laton McCartney

Laton McCartney is the author of the national bestseller Friends in High Places. He divides his time between Wyoming and New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara on November 24, 2019

Reading the Presidents: Warren Harding (scandalous) Another Update as of January 30, 2015 (Teapot Dome—the scandal that keeps on giving*) Government sells Teapot Dome — on the level, this time. Update Giving this a well-deserved bump in honor of the recent release of the love letters b......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on February 04, 2022

Laton McCartney’s The Teapot Dome Scandal colorfully chronicles the corruption of the Harding Administration, which until Watergate exemplified American political scandals. Even after Nixon and other Oval Office malefactors, Warren G. Harding’s reign of error remains mind-boggling in its mixture of......more

Goodreads review by Steve on November 14, 2010

The Hollywood Babylon of political skullduggery. Murder (chapter 1!), several questionable (and convenient) suicides, sex, payoffs, dirty judges, dirty politicians, dirty oil, illegal booze, one poor dancing girl who gets hit in the head by a flying bottle (and who eventually dies) at a poker party......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on April 01, 2008

Plenty to understand and relate to what has been going on in recent years. McCartney retells the story well with new material not in other versions.......more

Goodreads review by Clif on October 28, 2012

Rich man's justice, secret campaign contributions, disregard for conservation of natural resources, and Republican Party arrogance, it seemed like deja vu all over again. But this book is not about today's news, it's about the 1920s. Some say it's the biggest scandal in U.S. history, but others say......more

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