The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
From Publishers Weekly McCartney (Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story) does an efficient job of narrating 20th-century America’s first great federal corruption scandal. Petroleum preserves (or domes) were set aside on public lands in California and Wyoming, to be kept until needed by the navy. [Continue]
