Privileged Characters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

M. R. Werner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332181430 ISBN 13: 9781332181438

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Privileged Characters

In the book which he wrote in collaboration with Thomas Dixon, author of The Birth of a Nation, Harry M. Daugherty tells of a six hour conversation which he had with his life-long friend, Senator Harding, some time before the meeting of the Republican convention at Chicago. The Senator was reluctant to give up his sure, comfortable seat in the United States Senate for the uncertainty of a presidential nomination. In the Senate Harding had been safe, amiable and untroubled for some years. He had followed the course of his party religiously and had left it to more restless men to quarrel over its policies and their ambitions. Mrs. Harding, too, was against the move She was known in the circle of their pleasant friends as The Duchess, and she always poured the drinks whenever the Senator and his colleagues and friends were en joying a genial game of poker at night. They all thought it would be nice for Harding to be President, but none except Harry Daugherty seemed to realize how important and how possible it might be.

Daugherty tells us in The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy that in the effort to persuade his friend to take the chance, he mentioned one by one the political disadvantages of the other Republican candidates. Then Harding asked his friend a significant question: Am I a big enough man for the race?

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Excerpt from Privileged Characters When Warren G. Harding succeeded Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States, the American people publicly proclaimed that there was no God. The World War had been a religious conversion by force in the course of which everyone had been compelled to sacrifice his life, his freedom and his money, and the Treaty of Versailles, which ended that war, had made manifest that there was no possibility of heaven on earth. The reaction among the American people was one of eager desire for the pleasures of this world. Those whose idealism had received rude shocks from the obscenities of the War, followed closely by the selfish tactics of the Peace, no longer dared to care; those whose conversion had come about through shame, fear or expectation of gain were anxious to get all four feet into the trough again. In 1920 the American people, impatient to repudiate the rigid morality of Woodrow Wilson, turned instinctively to the Republican Party as the historic vehicle for the satisfaction of their predatory desires. A convention of that party was to meet in June of that year at the Coliseum in Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332181430
• ISBN 13: 9781332181438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 524