# The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding - Hardcover

by **Ryan S. Walters** (Author)

**"Presidents are ranked wrong. In _The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding_, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up--and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of _Coolidge_**

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.

### Author Biography

**Ryan S. Walters** is an independent historian who currently teaches history at Collin College in Texas. He is the author of _The Last Jeffersonian: Grover Cleveland and the Path to Restoring the Republic, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President,_ and _Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Started a Revolution_. He has appeared on Breitbart Radio and has spoken at a number of venues, including the Abbeville Institute and the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He lives in North Texas

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 0.94 x 9.35 x 6.31 IN

**Publication Date:** February 15, 2022

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