Harding Affair

Love and Espionage During the Great War

By: James David Robenalt, John W Dean (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 1 September 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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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"Intimate, revealing -- and sometimes downright embarrassing--the newly revealed love letters at the heart of The Harding Affair provide an altogether fresh look at a future American President hopelessly in love with a woman not his wife." --Geoffrey C. Ward, author of A First-Class Temperament and The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

"A crackling history by Greater Cleveland lawyer James David Robenalt gives Ohioans a peek, five years early, at court-sealed love letters that Warren G. Harding, the last Ohioan elected president, sent to his long-time mistress, Marion neighbor Carrie Phillips. Considering that they deal with a presidency that ended 86 years ago, that's saying a lot... Hard to put down." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Warren Harding has always been ranked as one of the worst U.S. presidents. But [this] book might just boost his image. Readers will see a tender, human side of Harding and also learn about his opposition to President Woodrow Wilson's nation-building efforts abroad after World War I--an issue that still resonates. If he had assumed the presidency in 1917 instead of 1921... [it may have] led to an outcome that would have drastically changed the course of the 20th century." --The Columbus Dispatch

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Foreword
Prologue
âÇ 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 Curt Loeffelholz von Colberg
'It Flames Like the Fire and Consumes'
Christmas Eve, 1910
A German Cavalry Officer Named Zollner
'Constant'
The Code
'I Got The Fever'
'Fate Timed That Marvelous Coincidence'
'Fragment Written Sunday', January 28, 1912, Manhattan Hotel Stationery
'IâÇÖd Rather Be a Licked Warrior and Survive, Than a Healthy Coward'
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