The Strange Death of President Harding
eBook - ePub

The Strange Death of President Harding

  1. 187 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Strange Death of President Harding

About this book

While incarcerated in the Atlanta federal penitentiary in 1924 for larceny, conspiracy and some 100 violations of the Prohibition Act, Gaston B. Means, a former Harding Administration official and private investigator, met May Dixon Thacker, the sister of novelist Thomas Dixon, whose The Clansman (1905) had been transformed by D. W. Griffith into The Birth of a Nation for the big screen in 1915. Mrs. Thacker, the author of True Confessions, promised to help Means tell his story. After his release, Means spent day after day dictating to her. The resulting publication, The Strange Death of President Harding, raises some interesting points surrounding the circumstances of the President's death during a nationwide speaking tour, and went on to become one of the bestselling books of 1930.

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Information

Publisher
Papamoa Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781789120547
Topic
History
Subtopic
American Civil War History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. PREFACE
  5. FOREWORD
  6. CHAPTER I-MRS. HARDING EMPLOYS MEANS AS PRIVATE DETECTIVE
  7. CHAPTER II-JESS SMITH SUMMONS MEANS TO THE “HOUSE ON H STREET”
  8. CHAPTER III-THE UNDERCOVER HEADQUARTERS OF “THE CLIQUE”
  9. CHAPTER IV-WHY DAUGHERTY MADE HARDING PRESIDENT
  10. CHAPTER V-JESS SMITH TELLS HIS STORY TO MEANS
  11. CHAPTER VI-MRS. HARDING TELLS MEANS ABOUT NAN BRITTON
  12. CHAPTER VII-MEANS “TAKES” NAN’S DIARIES AND LETTERS
  13. CHAPTER VIII-A STORM IN THE WHITE HOUSE
  14. CHAPTER IX-HARDING FORCED TO SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE
  15. CHAPTER X-MEANS’ INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING PRESIDENT HARDING
  16. CHAPTER XI-NAN REACHES WASHINGTON-AND HARDING
  17. CHAPTER XVII-JESS SMITH THREATENS TO “TELL EVERYTHING”
  18. CHAPTER XVIII-MEANS COLLECTS PROHIBITION GRAFT
  19. CHAPTER XIX-DAUGHERTY AND FALL-”MASTER SALESMEN”
  20. CHAPTER XX-JESS SMITH “PASSES ON”
  21. CHAPTER XXI-COVERING UP THE TRAIL
  22. CHAPTER XXII-MRS. HARDING CATCHES NAN BRITTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE
  23. CHAPTER XXIII-MRS. HARDING-”THE CHILD OF DESTINY”
  24. CHAPTER XXIV-THE JOURNEY TO ALASKA-AND THE END
  25. EPILOGUE-EXPLANATIONS AND INFERENCES
  26. APPENDIX A-PUBLISHER’S NOTES
  27. APPENDIX B-BIBLIOGRAPHY
  28. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER