Los papeles de Harding

Elliot Weiner is brilliant, with a PhD from Columbia and a degree from Harvard, a passionate Morris dancer, an expert on the long-forgotten President Warren Harding, and above all, a petty, ridiculous, and desperate human being. After receiving a research grant, he discovers that the key to his future academic glory lies in a trunk overflowing with erotic letters from the twenty-ninth president of the United States. The guardian of this treasure is Rebekah Kinney, Harding's elderly and formidable lover, holed up in a decaying Hollywood mansion. But what begins as a historical investigation spirals into obsession, vicarious embarrassment, repressed sexual delirium, and pure self-deception. Elliot Weiner crosses the line between the comic, the pathetic, and the wretched in a masterpiece that blends political satire, pop culture, and a ruthless portrait of decadent America.