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I read this book in 1993, and loved it, was fascinated by the ease with which he wrote of his life and his family, the joys and challenges, and sorrows, of childhood. A gifted writer. If anyone is looking for a book to read, offering windows into an age long gone, yet an elemental part of the American Story, this is the book for you.

I am struck by White's account of the 1920 Republican convention - the story of how he warned his fellow delegates that to nominate Harding would bring disgrace on the party, but eventually, whether from weakness or amiability, he caved, and gave his vote to the Harding. A quarter-century later the pangs of regret still tortured him. He should have stood for what he knew was right.