Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie
Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was
elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became
the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers
started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could
have foreseen that their relationship would play out against one of
the greatest wars in world history--the First World War. Harding
would become a Senator with the power to vote for war; Mrs.
Phillips and her daughter would become German agents, spying on a
U. S. training camp on Long Island in the hopes of gauging for the
Germans the pace of mobilization of the U. S. Army for entry into
the battlefields in France. Based on over 800 pages of
correspondence discovered in the 1960s but under seal ever since in
the Library of Congress, "The Harding Affair" will tell the unknown
stories of Harding as a powerful Senator and his personal and
political life, including his complicated romance with Mrs.
Phillips. The book will also explore the reasons for the entry of
the United States into the European conflict and explain why so
many Americans at the time supported Germany, even after the U. S.
became involved in the spring of 1917. James David Robenalt's
comprehensive study of the letters is set in a narrative that
weaves in a real-life spy story with the story of Harding's not
accidental rise to the presidency.
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