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Cargando... Tempest over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fallpor David H. Stratton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 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. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Albert B. Fall, interior secretary in the Harding administration, was the first American cabinet member sent to prison for a crime committed in office. In the Teapot Dome affair - the worst modern political scandal until Watergate - Fall leased two naval oil reserves, Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Hills, to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny and received payments of $404,000 from the two millionaire oilmen. Historian David Stratton pulls no punches as he sheds new light on western and national politics, conservation, and economic development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tempest over Teapot Dome describes Fall's role in Harding's administration, his tribulations in court before going to prison in 1931, his freewheeling career in New Mexico politics, his lawyering for underdog ranchers in a bloody range war, his gut-fighting style as a U. S. senator who opposed Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy, and his strident activities as an expert on Latin American affairs, particularly U. S.-Mexican relations. Fall's belief in the unrestricted and immediate disposition of public lands was as typically western as his black, broad-brimmed Stetson hat and his love of fine horses. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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