Tempest over Teapot Dome : the story of Albert B. Fall
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E748.F22 S77 1998
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E748.F22 S77 1998
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | E748.F22 S77 1998 | On Shelf |
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xvi, 376 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-365) and index.
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Albert B. Fall, interior secretary in the Harding administration, was the first American cabinet member sent to prison for a crime committed in office. In the Teapot Dome affair - the worst modern political scandal until Watergate - Fall leased two naval oil reserves, Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Hills, to Harry E. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny and received payments of $404,000 from the two millionaire oilmen.
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Tempest over Teapot Dome describes Fall's role in Harding's administration, his tribulations in court before going to prison in 1931, his freewheeling career in New Mexico politics, his lawyering for underdog ranchers in a bloody range war, his gut-fighting style as a U.S. senator who opposed Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy, and his strident activities as an expert on Latin American affairs, particularly U.S.-Mexican relations.
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Fall's belief in the unrestricted and immediate disposition of public lands was as typically western as his black, broad-brimmed Stetson hat and his love of fine horses. Stratton shows the money Fall took from Sinclair and Doheny played only an incidental role in determining his actions - that the real scandal lay in Fall's attempts to undo Progressive Era reforms - and that the recent sale of the Elk Hills Reserve - the biggest privatization of federal property in American history - makes Fall's leasing policy seem surreally visionary.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stratton, D. H. 1. (1998). Tempest over Teapot Dome: the story of Albert B. Fall . University of Oklahoma Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stratton, David H. 1927-. 1998. Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stratton, David H. 1927-. Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Stratton, D. H. 1. (1998). Tempest over teapot dome: the story of albert B. fall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stratton, David H. 1927-. Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
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