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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny. By Margaret Leslie Davis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 339 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-520-20292-9.)

Imagine a book about: high-profile special prosecutors doggedly pursuing a national investigation of corruption; a partisan congressional inquiry; a scandal that overwhelms the mass media, captivates the nation, and engulfs the White House. Rather than blurbs for a forthcoming manuscript on the Clinton impeachment, these facts describe Margaret Leslie Davis's engaging tale of the oil baron Edward L. Doheny's entanglement in the Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s. More precisely, Doheny was connected with the allegedly corrupt award of oil leases on federal lands, not at the fanciful-sounding Wyoming site of the Teapot Dome, but at a second set of oil reserves in Elk Hills, California. . . .

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