A Time of Scandal : Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau /
"In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R....
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. American dreams
- Hidden stories, fateful meetings
- Washington, DC, March-April 1921
- The dream of efficiency in government
- Part II. Reality checks
- Harding's flagship program, the US Veterans Bureau
- High stakes: controlling veterans hospitals
- Hype, hooch and the art of the con
- Part III. Winds of change
- Taking a friend on a business trip west
- Harding resurgent: White House versus Forbes
- Transitions in 1923: Forbes's resignation to Harding's death
- Part IV. Scandal time
- Coolidge, common cause and the politics of scandal
- Rush to judgment: a Senate committee investigates Forbes
- Scandal weavers: scripting a story of rogues, graft and greed
- The trial of Charles R. Forbes
- Part V. Aftermath
- Making the best of it
- Charlie and Bob, masks and mirrors
- Coda.