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Title: An overlong and often tedious biography.
Review: One of the key responsibilities of a biographer and historian is to convince the reader their 'person' is weighty enough to warrant the work-in-hand, in this case a walloping 543 page narrative. The author never convinced me of this. I found too much duplicate information, plus information superfluous to the task. An example of this are too many quotes of Warren Harding's erotic verse to his "latest and hottest'. Ovid, Harding was not. You only needed a short bit to establish this! This is only one example of many. But absolutely foremost is Florence Harding. She just never came off to this reader as being very different or significant enough to warrant this much effort and length on the part of the author or reader. Her husband and she were so mundane in their negatives that they would not even warrant a paragraph if the one of them hadn't been President, albeit briefly and unsuccessfully.
