Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929Macmillan, 2006 M12 26 - 224 pages The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership |
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... first century , forty - two men have made it to the Oval Office . ( George W. Bush is counted our forty- third president , because Grover Cleveland , who served nonconsec- utive terms , is counted twice . ) Of the parade of presidents ...
... first - order crisis , forceful and persuasive presidents - Jefferson , Jackson , James K. Polk , Theodore Roosevelt , Harry Truman , John F. Kennedy , Ronald Reagan , George W. Bush -- are able to impose their own priorities on the ...
... first changes he made on entering the White House in January was to take down the portraits of Thomas Jefferson and Harry Truman in the Cabinet Room and put up those of Dwight Eisenhower and Calvin Coolidge . ' Reagan's choice of the ...
... first film ever made of the personal and political life of Calvin Coolidge . " Nonetheless , amid all the schol- arly attention devoted of late to the founders of post - World War II conservatism , Coolidge and the avatars of the ...
Contents
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2 On the Brink | 27 |
3 The New President | 43 |
4 Hitting His Stride | 55 |
5 The Coolidge Prosperity | 67 |
6 Controversies | 81 |
7 Getting Elected | 91 |
9 High Tide of Republicanism | 125 |
10 A Contested Legacy | 141 |
Notes | 161 |
Milestones | 179 |
Bibliography | 181 |
Acknowledgments | 189 |
Index | 191 |
8 Beyond Americas Shores | 109 |
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Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929 David Greenberg No preview available - 2007 |
Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929 David Greenberg No preview available - 2007 |