The Shadow Of Blooming Grove

Description for THE SHADOW OF BLOOMING GROVE: WARREN G HARDING IN HIS TIMES by Francis Russell: Francis Russell's seven-hundred-page biography of the President who has come to be rated last in the hearts of his countrymen chronicles a fascinating era in American history and provides a remarkable portrait---both comic and oddly touching---of the affable, goodhearted mediocrity who was "everybody's second choice" at the deadlocked Republican convention of 1920. As the author says in his Foreword: "Harding, with his tarnished reputation, has never claimed the serious attention of historians. In this he has been the most neglected of Presidents. His centennial passed without an adequate general biography of him ever having appeared. He deserves a biography, not so much for himself---though in many ways his life was more interesting than those of more notable Presidents---but because he came as a dividing point in history when men moved forward and looked back. The first Presid