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

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

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
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Author: Laton McCartney
Narrator: William Hughes
Edition: Audio Cassette
Published: 2008-02-05
ISBN: 1433209306
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.

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Summary: 4 Stars

McCartney writes with considerable skill and quite comprehensively of the domination of the oil industry of the American economy in the first third of the 20th century. Crimes were committed that went virtually unpunished, while oil executives thumbed their noses at feeble efforts of Congress to address the problem. It makes you wonder what else is new.

What we need now in this nation is a clone of Senator Thomas James Walsh (D-Mont) who might be willing to take on the military-industrial, oil dominated oligarchy that now controls our economy and our lives. Perhaps another Walsh could get the current Congress off its dying rear end and on its dying feet, but it would probably be met with the same indifference and/or impotence that was demonstrated in the 1920's.

I would be delighted to see Laton McCartney, with his research and analytical skills undertake such a project, in the hope that he might produce yet another articulate and fascinating analysis of the forces that continue to control our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Summary of The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

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 imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the affair suffered prison terms, 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.

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