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The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney
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The Teapot Dome Scandal

How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

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Narrator William Hughes
Length 10 hours 8 minutes
Language English
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The Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s was all about oil—hundreds 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 was imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the affair suffered prison terms, commitment to mental hospitals, suicide, and even murder.

The Republican Party and the oil-company 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.

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

William Hughes is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. A professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, he received his doctorate in American politics from the University of California at Davis. He has done voice-over work for radio and film and is also an accomplished jazz guitarist.

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Reviews

“A terrific tale that resonates nearly a century on, at a time when many people are still wondering about the connections between Big Oil and politicians at the highest levels.”

“This is a story that has it all—a Jazz Age background, a pleasure-loving president surrounded by booze and chorus girls, boomtown capitalists from the Wild West [and] conniving politicians.”

“The most thorough treatment of the scandals to date.”

“Titillating, tantalizing…The book reads like a novel. McCartney’s cast of characters jumps off the page.”

“A cautionary tale of what happens when corrupt and indifferent public officials give an industry undue influence over public policy.”

“The greatest story of government scandal ever told…Hughes has a laudable knack with the numerous quotes, using subtle changes in his word stress to set them apart without employing annoying pauses or hundreds of characterizations.”

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