David H. Stratton

5468. Tempest over Teapot Dome The Story of Albert B. Fall, by David H. Stratton (read 9 May 2017) This is a carefully-prepared biography, published in1998. Fall comes across as a thoroughly unlikeable guy if he was against you. In fact he seems so obnoxious and egotistical that I could not feel sorry for him when he was old and beaten and had to spend about 9 months in prison. The Teapot Dome scandal is complicated but this book seeks to explain it, though it does not give a single citation to any court case--even though the Supreme Court acted at various times. I wonder if the book would have been better if the author would have been a lawyer. The renowned lawyer Frank J. Hogan was involved in the defense of Doheny and Fall. I heard of him when I was in law school and would like to read a biography of him if there is one.… (más)