Episode 119 - Mr. Harding Goes to Washington and Dies

Despite winning WWI and showing off its power to the rest of the world, the United States limped into 1920. Exhausted by a year of violence at home, a crippling recession, and runaway inflation, voter turned to the Republicans. And Republicans turned to a man that would symbolize the modest aspirations of the age, Warren G. Harding. Despite not lasting long, he'd set the tone for the rest of the decade.    Bibliography for this episode:    Miller, Nathan New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America Da Capo Press 2003 Schlesinger Jr, Arthur M The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-1933 First Mariner Books 1957 Kyvig, David E Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 Ivan R. Dee 2002 Engerman, Stanley L. and Robert E. Gallman The Cambridge Economic History of the United States Volume III: The Twentieth Century Cambridge University Press 2000 Iriye, Akira The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Volume III: The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945 Cambridge University Press 1993   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]