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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... Democratic politician William McAdoo described as " an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea . " Coolidge also indulged the White House press corps , which was growing in size and influence . He held 520 ...
... Democratic National Committee ( and later Franklin Delano Roosevelt's secretary of state ) , reported that in a meeting he had with Coolidge , the president " talked freely and easily ... and was as affable as I could have wished . " To ...
... Democratic Party , with its immigrants , wage earners , and urbanites . For them , the Party of Lincoln embodied ... Democrats as part of his 1964 landslide.2 Yankee Republicanism seemed to run in the Coolidge blood . Before Calvin's ...
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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 |