The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding

Presidents are ranked wrong.

In The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G.

Harding, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up—and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. - Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of Coolidge He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most often ends up at the bottom.

Historians have labeled him the "Worst President Ever," "Dead Last," "Unfit," and "Incompetent," to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel.

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Mencken called him a "nitwit." To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a "slob." Such is the current reputation of our 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding.