{"product_id":"harding-the-jazz-age-president-9781684514281","title":"Harding: The Jazz Age President","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Presidents are ranked wrong. In \u003ci\u003eHarding: The Jazz Age President\u003c\/i\u003e, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up--and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCoolidge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a \"Worst Presidents\" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the \"Worst President Ever,\" \"Dead Last,\" \"Unfit,\" and \"Incompetent,\" to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a \"nitwit.\" To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a \"slob.\" Such is the current reputation of our 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding. In an interesting survey in 1982, which divided the scholarly respondents into \"conservative\" and \"liberal\" categories, \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e groups picked Harding as the worst President. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But historian Ryan Walters shows that Harding, a humble man from Marion, Ohio, has been unfairly remembered. He quickly fixed an economy in depression and started the boom of the Roaring Twenties, healed a nation in the throes of social disruption, and reversed America's interventionist foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan S. Walters\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent historian who currently teaches history at Collin College in Texas. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Jeffersonian: Grover Cleveland and the Path to Restoring the Republic, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRemember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Started a Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. He has appeared on Breitbart Radio and has spoken at a number of venues, including the Abbeville Institute and the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He lives in North Texas\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Regnery History","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525938319634,"sku":"9781684514281","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b018de7-1679-414a-acd4-203a9053a73a.jpg?v=1731250375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/harding-the-jazz-age-president-9781684514281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}