1920: the year of the six presidents / David Pietrusza.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007.Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf edDescription: 553 p. : ill. ; 24 cmOther title:
  • Nineteen twenty
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 324.973/0913 22
  • 973.913 22
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 783  P626n 2007
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Contents:
The players in our drama -- "Discover a common hate" -- "Something queer was happening" -- "I seem to have gone to pieces" -- "He is the only candidate" -- "A turtle on a log" -- "I am Governor of Massachusetts" -- "He is certainly a wonder" -- "A twentieth-century Apollo" -- "Criminal intrigues everywhere" -- "Superior biologic values" -- "The funeral bake meats" -- "A 'safe' kind of liberal" -- "Red feathers, tin bears and cardboard oranges" -- "Warren Harding is the best of the second raters" -- "The greatest living champion of water" -- "Convict no. 9653" -- "A gathering of asteroids" -- "A mother's advice is always safest" -- "Back to normal" -- "A pretty good Constitution" -- "Wake up Ethiopia!" -- "Warren Gamaliel Harding is not a white man" -- "Perverts by official orders" -- "It was an earthquake" -- "Power must fail" -- "Fear itself."
Summary: This election was the only time that six once-and-future presidents -- Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- were jockeying for the White House at the same time. It was the first to generate extensive newsreel coverage and to utilize modern advertising techniques. It was also the first election in which all women could vote and to have
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-522) and index.

The players in our drama --
"Discover a common hate" --
"Something queer was happening" --
"I seem to have gone to pieces" --
"He is the only candidate" --
"A turtle on a log" --
"I am Governor of Massachusetts" --
"He is certainly a wonder" --
"A twentieth-century Apollo" --
"Criminal intrigues everywhere" --
"Superior biologic values" --
"The funeral bake meats" --
"A 'safe' kind of liberal" --
"Red feathers, tin bears and cardboard oranges" --
"Warren Harding is the best of the second raters" --
"The greatest living champion of water" --
"Convict no. 9653" --
"A gathering of asteroids" --
"A mother's advice is always safest" --
"Back to normal" --
"A pretty good Constitution" --
"Wake up Ethiopia!" --
"Warren Gamaliel Harding is not a white man" --
"Perverts by official orders" --
"It was an earthquake" --
"Power must fail" --
"Fear itself."

This election was the only time that six once-and-future presidents -- Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- were jockeying for the White House at the same time. It was the first to generate extensive newsreel coverage and to utilize modern advertising techniques. It was also the first election in which all women could vote and to have

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