When it comes to ranking presidents, Warren G. Harding’s name is typically found somewhere near the bottom. The conservative president who followed up the hyper-progressive administration of Woodrow Wilson is oft-remembered for the scandals that followed his untimely death in office. Ryan Walters, author of “The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding,” makes the case that the scandals were not a result of his doing and that his name should move up the rankings toward the good, if not great presidents. The author lightly touches on Harding’s time as a Senator from Ohio, but primarily focuses on the few short years of Harding’s administration, and how he dealt with what he inherited from the Wilson Administration. Debunking the Shady Senate Deal Before the presidency, Walters discusses the lies and slander that has afflicted the start of the Harding Administration, which he claims were spread by friends of Wilson and …