The Road to Normalcy; The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 206, ix, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Wesley Bagby had been a mainstay of West Virginia University's Department of History for 45 years. Before joining the WVU faculty as an assistant professor in 1956, he taught at Pfeiffer Junior College, Wake Forest University, the University of Tennessee and the University of Maryland. Bagby established a reputation for outstanding scholarship when he published two significant articles and a book, The Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920, which stamped him as a leading authority on the election of 1920. While continuing to focus much of his research on 20th century U.S. history, Bagby also turned increasing attention to U.S. foreign relations. This produced two major works: The Eagle-Dragon Alliance: Americas Relations with China in World War II published in 1992 and Americas International Relations Since World War I. This is one of The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, No. 1 for 1962. The election of 1920 struck a benchmark into U.S. political history. It ended America's flirtation with the League of Nations and spiked the Progressive movement. It left behind the Great War, the liberal tradition, and the dreams of Woodrow Wilson. It ushered in a period of government-by-businessmen, complacency, scandal, and the stock market crash. Harding coined the term "return to normalcy", which for a time seemed to fit. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Warren G. Harding, Leonard Wood, Bernard Baruch, William Borah, James Cox, Homer Cummings, Carter Glass, Herbert Hoover, Hiram Johnson, William McAdoo, Henry Cabot Lodge, Progressivism, Mitchell Palmer, William Howard Taft, Joseph Tumulty, Woodrow Wi
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