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Film, Video Scandal and Intrigue in 1920s America

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Title

  • Scandal and Intrigue in 1920s America

Summary

  • When Harry Daugherty secured a federal court injunction against a burgeoning nationwide railroad strike in September of 1922, little did the sitting attorney general realize the series of events he set into motion. In Montana, the state's soon-to-be-elected populist senator Burton Wheeler set his sights on Daugherty -- first using him as a whipping post for his election to the Senate, then later seeking to impeach the attorney general setting up a showdown that "profoundly reshape[d] the Justice Department, Bureau of Investigation, and even the Senate, and forever change[d] the way political scandals played out across America," writes Nathan Masters in his new book, "Crooked: The Roaring Twenties Tales of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal."

Event Date

  • August 23, 2023

Running Time

  • 55 minutes 31 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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