The President's Daughter is the heart warming story of an innocent young girl who became pregnant and gave birth to a child whose father happened to be the President of the United States. No. This is not a tawdry fable. This is fact. The President was Warren G. Harding who then died suddenly. Some say he was murdered. Her book is great. In Chapter 18 she describes how on July 30, 1917 she finally lost her virginity to the future president after a long courtship, in a New York City hotel on 30th Street overlooking Broadway. ...
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The President's Daughter is the heart warming story of an innocent young girl who became pregnant and gave birth to a child whose father happened to be the President of the United States. No. This is not a tawdry fable. This is fact. The President was Warren G. Harding who then died suddenly. Some say he was murdered. Her book is great. In Chapter 18 she describes how on July 30, 1917 she finally lost her virginity to the future president after a long courtship, in a New York City hotel on 30th Street overlooking Broadway. Only moments after the intercourse had been completed, the New York City Vice Squad broke down the door. Harding was forced to identify himself. When the police realized that their target, Warren G. Harding, was a United States Senator (he was not yet president), the Vice Squad apologized and beat a hasty retreat. It was not before long that Nan Britton discovered that she was pregnant. Senator Harding set her up in a house in Asbury Park, New Jersey near a casino where he sometimes played poker, and he sent her money through messengers. She was able to keep her pregnancy and the subsequent birth to her of an illegitimate child a secret from everybody, except for her actual lover who was US Senator and then President Warren G. Harding. The child, Elizabeth Ann, was born on October 22, 1919, not in a hospital but in the same house in Asbury Park NJ where Nan Britton had been staying. The resulting book, The President's Daughter, has a story all its own. Bills were introduced in the United States Congress to stop the publication of this book or to make possession of it illegal. The New York City Vice Squad raided the printing plant and confiscated all the plates. No major, reputable book publisher would touch this book. All turned it down. Finally, the book was published. Naturally, as the book featured sex romps in the White House, it became a best seller.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. Large Octavo. The author's account of her affair with President Warren Harding, which produced a daughter, Elizabeth. When Harding died suddenly in 1923, his widow and family refused to acknowledge their love child, followed by powerful political forces who persecuted Britton and tried to stop the publication of this book. The author created the Publisher to help provide a financial legacy for her daughter and a trust and movement to recognize and defend all out of wedlock children. In 2015 it was genetically determined that Elizabeth was in indeed President Harding's daughter. Moderately shaken, with hinge just starting verso frontis. Gilt titles are worn from blindstamped decorations on spine, dimmed on front board.
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ACCEPTABLE in NONE jacket. Size: 7x5x0; 1927 1st edition; 439 unmarked pages with tanning around edges, some small stains and smudges, an occasional tear; binding mostly tight but loosening in some places; age toning and soiling inside front and back covers and some small holes in rear flyleaf; chip from front pastedown endpaper; page facing "Six Burly Men" page has a poem written in ink and the page is torn at the gutter top and bottom; sturdy cover is quite worn with small abrasions on edges, tears and fraying both ends of spine, faded type, worn and slightly bumped corners; black-and-white photos throughout.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. Black cloth cover is frayed at corners and spine caps with a small tear along front hinge and tiny hole along fore edge, with some loss to the gilt and a very faint cup ring on front cover. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs toned and soiled. "Six Burly Men" advertisement affixed to front end sheet with tiny chip in lower corner of front end sheet. Pages are lightly toned with light signs of handling (finger prints) but in very good condition. Illustrated with b&w photographic images.; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 437 pages.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; 1927 Elizabeth Ann Guild first edition first printing in lightly shelf worn unclipped jacket now in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. A74 Please email for photos.
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Very Good. First edition, first state with the notice "Six Burley Men" as a cancel. Tall octavo. 437, [3]pp. Spine lettering worn away, wear at the corners and spine ends, else about very good, lacking the very scarce dustwrapper. Britton, author of the sensational tell-all bestseller of 1927: *The President's Daughter* (in which she named Warren Harding the father of her illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth Ann Harding, confirmed by DNA testing just a few years ago), and an early champion for the cause of securing legal rights for unwed mothers and their illegitimate children. Britton used the royalties from the sale of her book to establish a league to support unwed mothers. This copy bears a full page Inscription from Britton on the front fly to a noted humorist and cartoonist: "Inscribed for Harry Hershfield by the author-With appreciation of the interest he has expressed in the cause which this book sponsors-Very sincerely, Nan Britton. November 1927." She additionally has noted on the facing pastedown in a reference to Hershfield's most popular cartoon, about a Jewish car dealer: "How many times my daughter has enjoyed 'Abie the Agent! ' Nan Britton." Beneath this, in a childish hand is written by her daughter: "I like Abie the agent. Sincerely, Elizabeth Ann Harding." Very uncommon signed by both Britton and her daughter.
This is a fascinating book which, for the most part, has been lost to us. I was fortunate to find this copy. The seller shipped it quickly and efficiently.
Vernon
Feb 4, 2010
A Potboiler to Get Money
I have used the book "The President's Daughter" as part of my research on the administration of President Warren G. Harding. I have come to think that Nan Britton did not write the book, but that it was ghost written by a man who was her mentor. Nan Britton existed, and had a "crush" on the adult Harding, but there is no existant proof of any of her allegations. Her slander and defamation of character have done great damage to the former President's reputation, and have been picked up by many Harding scholars and historians. There are several reputable medical sources who state that Warren G. Harding was sterile. Nan Britton was what we referred to in my genration as a "fast" girl, and she tried many times to extort money from Harding's brother and sisters; her technique was blackmail, and when that did not work, she published this book. Her success as a best seller came because when the book was released, Harding and his wife Florence were dead. She saw this potboiler as a way to make the money she could not get through extortion. There is not one shred of proof that she had the access to the White House that she writes about; she lost her case in court, and did not even show up the last day of judgment. She claimed to her death that Elizabeth Ann was Harding's child. John Dean in his book on Harding, states that it all could be settled if Nan Britton's child's descendants and the Harding descendants would have DNA testing. The book is of interest to anyone who is interested in the period of the roaring twenties or the Harding administration.
vnb3158
Aug 27, 2009
BETTER THAN BUSHES
Britton paints Harding as weak, but a GIANT compared to Bush 41 & 43.
