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" The Harding affair : "
James David Robenalt.
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BL
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1015697
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b770067
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Robenalt, James D.,1956-
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The Harding affair : : love and espionage during the Great War /\ James David Robenalt.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
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xvii, 396 pages ;; 25 cm
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0230609643
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: 9780230609648
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue: "'Twas a search in Vain" -- Espionage in Chattanooga: the Baroness -- The American protective league and love tricks of women spies -- "The sweetest, dearest little brother you ever saw" -- Saturday, December 22, 1917: an espionage hearing begins -- Carrie -- Baron Kurt Loeffelholz von Colberg -- "It flames like the fire and consumes" -- Christmas eve, 1910 -- A German cavalry officer named Zollner --"Constant" -- "I got the fever" -- "Fate timed that marvelous coincidence" -- "I'd rather be a licked warrior and survive, than a healthy coward" -- "Everybody would be able to get the better of me" -- "My Carrie, beloved and adored" -- "Mrs. H is an invalid" -- "I have had my first lark since you went abroad" -- "I was literally seduced and urged into the step" -- "Sophie! Sophie! Don't die! Stay alive for the children!" -- "I am busier than an old hen with brood full of chicks" -- "You are an enemy alien" -- "This was surely a great victory" -- "I expected my husband to stay in America" -- "Why didn't you say what you wrote?" -- "Apparently considerable panic" -- "Bernstorff used dyes as war club" -- "Is it my intention to work at my job instead of haranguing dinner parties" -- "He was an American from the word go" -- "So Robinson came!" -- "The strength of the warrior and the skill of the engineer" -- "I learned to love with you" -- "No, this makes me too promiscuous" -- "Today we raise the question of peace" -- "I know you are in rebellion" -- "We shall make war together and together make peace" -- "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own" -- "My countrymen, the republic is on trial" -- "First met him at a hop" -- "You suddenly threatened me with exposure to the Germans" -- "I guess my spirit is broken" -- "Secrets of the Hohenzollerns" -- "The chickens had scraps from the table" -- "Need of dictator urged by Harding" -- "No women are insensible to the courtly attentions of army or navy men" -- "Isabelle, you are a sudden child" -- "I'm talking to the wife of a German officer, now ain't I?" -- "It thrills me, merely to live it over in recollection" -- "Let me lecture you a bit" -- "War is Hell" -- "You fare the wonder woman of the world" -- "We have blundered."
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Documents Warren G. Harding's secret affair with pro-German advocate Carrie Phillips as based on their previously undisclosed correspondence, in an account that profiles the twenty-ninth president's personal life against a backdrop of the war and Phillip's possible role as a German spy.
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Harding, Warren G., (Warren Gamaliel),1865-1923
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Harding, Warren G., (Warren Gamaliel),1865-1923-- Relations with women.
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Phillips, Carrie Fulton,1873-1960
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Phillips, Carrie Fulton,1873-1960.
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Harding, Warren G.
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Harding, Warren G.
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Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923
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Harding, Warren G., (Warren Gamaliel),1865-1923.
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Phillips, Carrie Fulton, 1873-1960
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Phillips, Carrie Fulton,1873-1960.
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Phillips, Carrie Fulton.
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Espionage-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Presidents-- United States, Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918-- United States.
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Espionage.
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Liebesbeziehung
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Politik.
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Politische Kultur.
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Presidents.
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Regierung.
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Relations with women.
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Skandal.
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Spionage
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Spionage.
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Weltkrieg
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United States, History, 1913-1921.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.91/4092
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| LC Classification
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E786.R63 2009
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FG:us S:pg Z:41sdnb
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NQ 5350rvk
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