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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Cast of Characters
PART I » AMERICAN DREAMS
1 Hidden Stories, Fateful Meetings
2 Washington, DC, March–April 1921
3 The Dream of Efficiency in Government
PART II » REALITY CHECKS
4 Harding’s Flagship Program | The US Veterans Bureau
5 High Stakes | Controlling Veterans Hospitals
6 Hype, Hooch, and the Art of the Con
PART III » WINDS OF CHANGE
7 Taking a Friend on a Business Trip West
8 Harding Resurgent | White House versus Forbes
9 Transitions in 1923 | Forbes’s Resignation to Harding’s Death
PART IV » SCANDAL TIME
10 Coolidge, Common Cause, and the Politics of Scandal
11 Rush to Judgment | Senate Hearings Target Forbes
12 Scandal Weavers | Scripting a Story of Rogues, Graft, and Greed
13 The Trial of Charles R. Forbes
PART V » AFTERMATH
14 Making the Best of It
15 Charlie and Bob, Masks and Mirrors
Coda
Acknowledgments
Time Line for Significant Characters, 1914–1929
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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