--- product_id: 26862322 title: "Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923" price: "$35.82" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/26862322-warren-g-harding-the-american-presidents-series-the-29th-president store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923 **Price:** $35.82 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Warren G. 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Raised in Marion, Ohio, Harding took hold of the small town's newspaper and turned it into a success. Showing a talent for local politics, he rose quickly to the U.S. Senate. His presidential campaign slogan, "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy," gave voice to a public exhausted by the intense politics following World War I. Once elected, he pushed for legislation limiting the number of immigrants; set high tariffs to relieve the farm crisis after the war; persuaded Congress to adopt unified federal budget creation; and reduced income taxes and the national debt, before dying unexpectedly in 1923. In this wise and compelling biography, John W. Dean―no stranger to controversy himself―recovers the truths and explodes the myths surrounding our twenty-ninth president's tarnished legacy. Review: A Surprising Look at a President Written Off by History - Once again the American Presidents series delivers an excellent, short biography of a president that manages to be both entertaining and thought-provoking. Dean shows there was much more to Harding than the Teapot Dome Scandal. This biography raises many interesting points about how the media and indeed history present the legacy of a president. Harding's choice of Cabinet turned out to be disastrous. It's impossible to know how much Harding knew and when, but I did come away feeling that Harding was not as bad as he has been portrayed in history. I most appreciated Dean's ability to create some suspense in a historical context that everyone really knows about. I also like how he handled the Teapot Dome Scandal in the end of the book so it did not overshadow the biography. Overall, well researched and well written. I think John W. Dean was the right author for this book. Review: A Better Balanced Biography - This is a better balanced biography of Harding than the Jazz Age President that I read just before this one. In this one Dean does do a good overview of Harding's personal life as well as well as his political life. You get a little better sense of the man and what made him. Dean does defend him quite vigorously while still not pointing out faults Harding had. No President is perfect and any biographer does a disservice if he cannot or will not point those out. To me Harding seems similar to Grant in that he surrounded himself with a number of questionable characters who were very corrupt and his presidency paid the price in a historical context. Harding had to have known things were going on but did nothing or didn't have the chance to do nothing since his life ended quickly. Hopefully someday someone will write a good even handed and thorough biography of Harding. He deserves it IMO as I do believe he was better than he has been given credit but also he is not as good as Dean and Walters have made him out to be. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #194,559 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #204 in United States Executive Government #373 in US Presidents #889 in Political Leader Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 414 Reviews | ## Images ![Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71JPfGX8vNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Surprising Look at a President Written Off by History *by D***B on July 22, 2017* Once again the American Presidents series delivers an excellent, short biography of a president that manages to be both entertaining and thought-provoking. Dean shows there was much more to Harding than the Teapot Dome Scandal. This biography raises many interesting points about how the media and indeed history present the legacy of a president. Harding's choice of Cabinet turned out to be disastrous. It's impossible to know how much Harding knew and when, but I did come away feeling that Harding was not as bad as he has been portrayed in history. I most appreciated Dean's ability to create some suspense in a historical context that everyone really knows about. I also like how he handled the Teapot Dome Scandal in the end of the book so it did not overshadow the biography. Overall, well researched and well written. I think John W. Dean was the right author for this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Better Balanced Biography *by K***R on November 23, 2022* This is a better balanced biography of Harding than the Jazz Age President that I read just before this one. In this one Dean does do a good overview of Harding's personal life as well as well as his political life. You get a little better sense of the man and what made him. Dean does defend him quite vigorously while still not pointing out faults Harding had. No President is perfect and any biographer does a disservice if he cannot or will not point those out. To me Harding seems similar to Grant in that he surrounded himself with a number of questionable characters who were very corrupt and his presidency paid the price in a historical context. Harding had to have known things were going on but did nothing or didn't have the chance to do nothing since his life ended quickly. Hopefully someday someone will write a good even handed and thorough biography of Harding. He deserves it IMO as I do believe he was better than he has been given credit but also he is not as good as Dean and Walters have made him out to be. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Good, But Not Great *by A***S on June 14, 2020* The author has a much more favorable view of Warren Harding as a man and president than most earlier Harding biographers. Dean makes the case that the actual record of the Harding presidency was moderately successful, he was popular while president and got along well with the press. The author maintains the evidence for Harding’s scandals and immorality is not as iron clad as past biographers contend. There are two contributing factors to the author’s interest in Warren Harding. The first is they are both from Marion, OH, where the author growing up in the 50s knew locals who remembered Harding. Carrie Phillips, a woman from Warren Harding’s past, was still living in the town. Dean also had childhood friends who were relatives of Marshall DeWolfe, the son of Florence Harding from an earlier relationship. The second factor is that John Dean was a senior staffer in the Nixon administration, so he is a bridge between the two most scandalous administrations of the 20th century. It is intriguing to read about Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome scandal from the perspective of a Nixon administration figure and Watergate scandal survivor. The author relied almost entirely on secondary sources, mostly past Harding biographies. The positive side of this is that the author provides the reader clear analysis of past Harding scholarship starting with the hagiographies immediately after his death, next the vilifications that came out after the Teapot Dome scandal was exposed, then the biographies in the 60s and 70s that came out in response to the discovery of Harding documents believed to be lost and finally more recent studies that portray Harding as not as bad a president or man as previously thought. The author should have cited more primary sources since he is challenging the conventional thinking on Harding. I’m surprised and disappointed that he did not draw more from his memories and conversations in Marion, OH. This is a good book for high school or college students writing a report or paper on Harding. It is also valuable as a first book for anyone planning to read several Harding biographies as this author does a good job analyzing them. However, someone wanting one comprehensive and detailed book about Warren Harding should look elsewhere. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/26862322-warren-g-harding-the-american-presidents-series-the-29th-president](https://www.desertcart.us/products/26862322-warren-g-harding-the-american-presidents-series-the-29th-president) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-07-15*