Presidents are ranked wrong.
He quickly fixed an economy in depression and started the boom of the Roaring Twenties, healed a nation in the throes of social disruption, and reversed America\'s interventionist foreign policy..
But historian Ryan Walters shows that Harding, a humble man from Marion, Ohio, has been unfairly remembered.
In an interesting survey in 1982, which divided the scholarly respondents into conservative and liberal categories, both groups picked Harding as the worst President.
Such is the current reputation of our 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding.
To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a slob.
Mencken called him a nitwit.
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Many contemporaries were equally cruel.
Historians have labeled him the Worst President Ever, Dead Last, Unfit, and Incompetent, to name but a few. -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.
In Harding: The Jazz Age President , Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up--and supplies the evidence to make that case strong.
Presidents are ranked wrong
