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For the first half hour on that fateful Thursday, stock prices were steady.

When the wheeling and dealing of some of President Harding’s closest friends was revealed, the mud spattered Cabinet members, the heads of oil companies, the chairman of the Republican party, and eventually the President himself

All the old rules seemed to be vanishing in the Twenties. In exchange came a strange new world both gaudy and sad

A Few Photographs Worth a Few Thousand Words

It was 1924 and the Klan was riding high. The author’s father, a congressman, wouldn’t join, and this Is how It felt to be an outcast in one’s own home town that summer.