Talk:William Estabrook Chancellor

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Is this newsworthy enough, especially when there is so much speculation about "the first Black American to achieve the highest office in the land" - Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice? It occurs to me, that Black aspirations, and African American pride can only be abashed at such a record - be he of African American lineage or not! But was Chancellor right to have published - right with his facts I mean? Or did the roorbacks exhibit a mean-spirited, nasty, brutal streak of racism? I suspect Harding supporters would have folks say that about Chancellor ... whilst those that see his marriage into Beecher Stowe's family a confirmation, and celebration, of African American values? Whatever it is - Chancellor's story remains largely unheard - although echoes seemed to surface in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" - where a professor is again 'hounded from office' under the cloud of suspicion of racism; Roth's professor, it turns out - also owns unspoken lineage ... but this time, it is the professor who has been accused of anti-Black attitudes. John A. Murphy writes of Chancellor's experiences under Harding's dogged pursuit in his publication of 2000 - "The Indictment". That so little of Harding's memory is remembered today may well be testimony to the gargantuan failure of his Presidency (corruption and poor policies); so little of Chancellor's a testimony to the ruthlessness that Harding utilised in effacing his name from history. And if we let Harding get away with it, that is as much indictment as any ... —80.40.0.111 17:47, 25 November 2004 (UTC)

“Chancellor moved to Canada.”
Y'know, that sort of thing is not normally taken as a sufficient end to a biography. It would seem that Chancellor spent about 40 years in Canada. The LoC doesn't have any listings for further publications, nor did I find any in the LAC, so apparently the Canadians wouldn't publish his stuff either. What was he doing? Lumberjacking? Singing “Beautiful Ohio” for pennies on street corners? —12.72.71.48 13:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Laton McCartney, 2008 Random House, "The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country" covers William Eastbrook (sp?) Chancellor's saga of publishing "The Illustrated Life of Warren G. Harding". He discusses agents destroying the plates after confiscating printed copies. I listened to the audiobook and cannot give pages references, but from a Google books search, pg. 131 begins the Chancellor entry with the assertion that agents of "Billy" (William J) Burns, director of the Bureau of Investigation (predecessor to J Edgar Hoover), had threatened Chancellor and caused him to flee to Canada. The rest of the narrative is not picked up by Google. The wikipedia entry for William J Burns, indicates that he ran the Burns Detective Agency while he was director of the BOI and used agents from both services to intimidate newspaper editors and jurors in one of the Teapot Dome Scandel conspiracy trials. Gnach (talk) 18:56, 28 October 2014 (UTC) gnach

Discrepency
The article states, in different places, that Chancellor lost his job at Wooster in 1920, and in 1921. The former is probably more likely.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:01, 5 May 2018 (UTC)