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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. If I hadn't known beforehand that Gaston Means was a nut case, I would definitely have known it after reading this book. Wow. ( ) 5353. The Strange Death of President Harding From the Diaries of Gaston B. Means as told to May Dixon Thacker (read 25 Feb 2016) This book purports to tell of Gaston Means' activities as an investigator for the U. S. Department of Justice when Harry Daugherty was Attorney-General. It is replete with lengthy quotations of people Means says he came in contact with while working for Mrs. Harding. These cannot be accurate unless Means had them taped--long before the days of Watergate. No doubt Nixon would have been enamored of Means, who did "dirty tricks" so successfully--according to Means. The book was actually written by May Dixon Thacker, who in 1931 published a 12-page book repudiating the book--according to a listing on Amazon. No doubt there is some truth in this book but there is no way to tell what is true and what is fiction. Means spent two years in Federal prison taking, he says, the hit for others in the Harding Administration. He was sentenced to prison again in connection with his doings in regard to the Lindbergh kidnapping and died in prison in Leavenworth, Kans. on 12 December 1938. no reviews | add a review
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While incarcerated in the Atlanta federal penitentiary in 1924 for larceny, conspiracy and some 100 violations of the Prohibition Act, Gaston B. Means, a former Harding Administration official and private investigator, met May Dixon Thacker, the sister of novelist Thomas Dixon, whose The Clansman (1905) had been transformed by D. W. Griffith into The Birth of a Nation for the big screen in 1915. Mrs. Thacker, the author of True Confessions, promised to help Means tell his story. After his release, Means spent day after day dictating to her. The resulting publication, The Strange Death of President Harding, raises some interesting points surrounding the circumstances of the President's death during a nationwide speaking tour, and went on to become one of the bestselling books of 1930. No library descriptions found. |
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