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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... autobiography, he mentions them four times apiece.I6 Coolidge's silence itself has to be appreciated as a telltale expression of his restrained character. “His outward reticence and aloofness,” wrote Edmund Starling, perceptively, “were ...
... autobiography , which is short and unrevealing . In dealing with callers , Coolidge told his suc- cessor , Herbert Hoover , silence truly is golden : " If you keep dead still , they will run down in three or four minutes . If you even ...
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Contents
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1 Out of Plymouth Notch | 15 |
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 |
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 |