The President's Daughter (Illustrated)

The President's Daughter (Illustrated)

This ebook contains all forty-one photographs from the original 1927 book.

In 1927 Nan Britton self-published a tell-all book that supposedly described her affair with Warren Harding, and told about Nan Brittonâ€™s efforts supposedly on behalf of Hardingâ€™s love child. The 1927 book sold 110,000 official copies, plus bootlegged copies.

Here is what she claimedâ€”

In 1910, when Nan Britton was fourteen, she developed a crush on Marion, Ohioâ€™s most prominent citizen, forty-five-year-old Warren Harding. In 1917, when Nan Britton was twenty-one and Harding was fifty-two and a U.S. senator, she started an affair with him. In October of 1919, Nan Britton gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, of whom Warren Harding was secretly the father.

Harding was generous with cash for the raising of his child, either handing Nan the cash in person (yes, the affair continued into the White House); or money was delivered to Nan Britton by a Secret Service agent, â€œTim Slade.â€

The book mentions Harding making only one request to Nan Britton: That if â€œsomething should happen toâ€ him, that she should destroy all his love letters to her, just as Harding had instructed his personal secretary to destroy all of Nan Brittonâ€™s love letters if Harding died. Nan agreed to the request.

Sure enough, in 1923 Harding died unexpectedly. Nan Britton dutifully destroyed his love letters, even as she mourned his death.

To Nan Brittonâ€™s great shock, Elizabeth Ann was not mentioned in Hardingâ€™s will. And either he never set aside a fund for his daughter, or that fund was embezzled. In any case, Nan Britton had to support Elizabeth Ann on her own.

Nan Britton did get money, though. She got money from Tim Slade, and she got money from Daisy Harding, one of the presidentâ€™s sisters.

But eventually Nan Britton wanted more money. In 1926, she met with Warren Hardingâ€™s brother Deac, asking that the Harding family set up a trust fund for Elizabeth Ann.

That meeting and its aftermath is described in the book, beginning in Chapter 158.

All that is what Nan Britton claimed in her book. But what is the truth?

Nowadays, the sons of Elizabeth Ann Blaesing claim that Nan Britton told the truth; nowadays the Harding family claims that Nan Brittonâ€™s book is a pack of lies. But no DNA testing has been done, which would settle the matter.

But perhaps you the reader donâ€™t need DNA testing. The book has lots of photos of Warren Harding, and lots of photos of Elizabeth Annâ€”do they look to you like theyâ€™re related?

The U.S. copyright for The Presidentâ€™s Daughter expired in 1956. But the bookâ€™s forty-one photographs posed such a technical challenge for a reprinter that only in 2013 has Nan Brittonâ€™s book come out as an electronic book.

The price of this book in 1928 was five dollars. Now you can buy it much cheaper.

AUGUST 13, 2015â€”EDITED TO ADD: â€œThe Presidentâ€™s Daughterâ€ (Elizabeth Ann Blaesing) is indeed Hardingâ€™s daughter. DNA tests have confirmed that James Blaesing (son of Elizabeth Ann Blaesing and grandson of Nan Britton) is a second cousin to Peter Harding (grandnephew of President Harding).

Tags: Harding, Warren G. Harding, Nan Britton, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, sex scandal, autobiography, illegitimate, public domain

This ebook is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management) hobbling.
Country USA
Manufacturer Hypo To Helio Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-11-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Hypo To Helio Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-11-25
Format	Kindle eBook

The President's Daughter (Illustrated)

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