"The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding" — Signed by the author, Ryan S. Walters

Updated on July 14: We have fewer than a dozen copies left and will not be ordering more. Our "Book Week" discount ends Sunday, July 20. Proceeds benefit the work of the non-profit organization, The Pursuit of History

Hard cover, brand new and signed by the author, Ryan S. Walters, published by Random House Audio in 2022.

He'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, both groups picked Harding as the worst President.

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.

A note regarding shipping: Your book will probably be shipped via Media Mail. USPS regulations for Media Mail restrict any correspondence, so while I'd normally include a note of thanks, doing so, in this case, would violate USPS regulations.

Proceeds benefit the work of the non-profit organization, The Pursuit of History