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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... Coolidge's popular reputation , such as it was , had hardened into a cartoon - one that endures today . Coolidge has become the grim - faced " Silent Cal " -Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice made famous the judgment that he looked ...
... Coolidge's homilies for his own statements , and in 1981 , when he fired striking air traffic controllers , he took inspiration from Coolidge's tough line in 1919 against striking Boston policemen.3 Other Reaganites similarly found a ...
... Coolidge and the avatars of the conservative prewar years have remained largely overlooked.4 Foremost among Coolidge's achievements , for Reagan and his followers , were the economic policies he pursued , which helped maintain a robust ...
... Coolidge's economic out- look was indeed idealistic.S Besides sharing an idealized image of America , Ronald Reagan resembled Calvin Coolidge in another important sense . For all his paeans to an idyllic past , Reagan was decidedly ...
... Coolidge ... is due to the fact that he , not [ Congress ] , best understood the people and they him . " 13 Coolidge's frequent public appeals helped him maintain his pop- ularity . His addresses were less finely reasoned arguments than ...
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 |