April 1, 2012. Harper, Texas. Warren Harding.

Warren Harding is due another look.  All you ever learned anything about him as The President is that he was a bad one.  It turns out not to be true.  I am almost finished reading a new biography of Warren Harding and although it does not come close to being comprehensive, the book is informative.  The author is John Dean, a name you would recall from Watergate times.  The book is short and breezy and interesting.

The most important lesson from this book is that if you die in office, which President Harding did, be sure you have someone like Jackie Kennedy who will tell the world what the world should hear about the dead president.  If not, the press will say whatever they wish and forget all the good deeds.   This book is one of a series of presidents and a welcome revisionist biography of Warren Harding.