BIG OIT, BIG SCANDAL BOOK DETAILS BRIBERY, CORRUPTION BEHIND TEAPOT DOME OIL DEALS.(A&E)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | February 3, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: WILLIAM R. WINEKE bwineke@madison.com 608-252-6146

Government tends to invite corruption and every presidency seems to have more than its share.

But the Teapot Dome scandals of the 1920s will probably stand forever as emblematic of what can happen when the people turn the henhouses over to the foxes.

Laton McCartney's book, "The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country" (Random House: $27), makes a scandal of four-score years past seem as current as today.

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