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livruther 's review for:
The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding
by Ryan S. Walters
informative
fast-paced
i can’t give this just one star since i did learn a little bit. the comparison to trump in the beginning is unnecessary, and at the end he uses anecdotal evidence as proof that everyone loved harding, rather than looking at the whole picture, which, to me, seems like bad history. he’s like “this person said this nice thing about harding, which means that he was amazing and everyone loved him!” also, i am no woodrow wilson fan, but at points this felt more like a polemic against wilson than a praise of harding. he also barely glosses over harding’s affairs, and he doesn’t mention many of harding’s flaws. he acts as though the flaws he discusses are the only reasons anyone could dislike harding, when in fact, there are other factors that can go into one’s dislike of harding. also, he doesn’t recognize that anyone could have different political perspectives. he compliments harding for small government and appointing conservative justices, not mentioning that those could be reasons that others dislike him.