The Bloviator

Sex, Drugs, Fraud, Suicide, Murder, Scandal, Adultery, Quackery, Corruption, Superstition and President Warren G. Harding.

De: Jim Yoakum

Narrado por: Jim Cuddy

1923: Faced with impending personal and political scandals (corrupt cabinet members, drinking, gambling, failing health made worse by a quack physician, blackmailers attempting to exploit his numerous affairs and bastard children, murders, and suicides), President Warren G. Harding embarks on a cross-country train trip, from Washington D.C. to Alaska, in an effort to rehabilitate his chances for re-election - something he is unsure he even wants.

But the GOP have lost faith in Warren. However, they have taken a liking to the idea of running the first-ever female president: Florence, his smart, and ambitious wife. After all, it had been Florence who had spearheaded the innovations that not only got Warren elected in 1920, but which are still used today: the creation of solicitation-telephone calls, celebrity endorsements, photo-ops, news reels, radio ads, direct marketing...and it was Florence who is both the brains of the outfit, and the star of this show. Harding is simply the handsome, good-natured, overly-trusting, face.

Based on the true, last (and unbelievably bizarre) six months in the life of America's 29th President, The Bloviator tells the story of sex, drugs, scandals, blackmail, murder, suicides - and the presidency. The Bloviator is a "fiction fueled by fact" in that while some elements are constructions, they are well with-in the plausible, and probable, range of the facts.

The Bloviator is an epic; a massive and sprawling work; history as absurdity, as if it were being filtered through a cracked prism - but the prism is not cracked. Most of the story told here is unbelievably, incredibly, based on true events.

©2012 Jim Yoakum (P)2019 Jim Yoakum

Too trashy

Greatly disappointed as this was too trashy and full of half truths. Don’t waist your money

Pure trash

This book is nothing but gossip and trash. Shame on audible for making this the only book available on Harding’s presidency.

Garbage, not worth your time

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of a historical figure is something that can be done well, adding interest and filling gaps in narrative. This is not that. This is poorly written, poorly structured, with sophomoric humor that falls flat. It's like something a high school boy would write, with a high school boy's giggling discomfort with sexuality and lack of understanding of women. There is no coherent narrative, there are no examinations of motive or feelings, there is no broader historical context provided except in tedious "flashback" sequences wedged at random into the book. Truly, do not waste your money.