Outrageous Politics

Episode 28: Not A Tempest In A Teapot!


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What is a Teapot Dome? Why is it called that?  Join me in discovering why this story is the biggest scandal in U.S. history, and some historians say still is because of the money that changed hands.

For more reading:

 McCartney, Laton (2008). The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country. New York: Random House.

 Cherny, Robert W. "Graft and Oil: How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest Political Scandal of its Time". History Now. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Outrageous PoliticsBy Penny Reynolds Boyce