Oklahoma oilman and multi-millionaire Jake Hamon had just helped elect Warren Harding President of the United States and had a fast track to become Secretary of the Interior - but under one condition. He had to break things off with his mistress of ten years, Clara Smith. That was when things went terribly wrong. David R. Stokes, author of "Jake and Clara: Scandal, Politics, Hollywood and Murder". tells this remarkable story of loyalty, deception and murder.

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