Episode 28: Not A Tempest In A Teapot!
Outrageous Politics
English - January 24, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPolitics News politics political politician history outrageous comedy drama non-fiction "united states" crime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 27: Contra-versy!
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