#when you can be fairly compared to Nixon you're not in a good way

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Then there's Warren G. Harding:

The McKinley book was 483 pages, the Harding book 175. This is partially a measure of the different access to primary sources with each, partially that one is a full-scale biography and the other a short part of an ongoing sequence of Presidential biographies. The main thrust of this one is that based on the primary sources Harding was unfairly blamed and caricatured for Teapot Dome, but at the end of the day the President selects the people under him as a grown-ass man and as such death does not absolve Harding from the consequences of selecting one of the more crooked Administrations before Watergate.

That said the book does note that for all that he spoke of 'normalcy' that Harding did far more for civil liberties than Woodrow Wilson did and at least rhetorically was more radical than anyone in office would be on civil rights until Lyndon Baines Johnston. He did die before having any real opportunities to measure what his words were intended to be.

8/10.