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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... Harding John Patrick Diggins on John Adams Elizabeth Drew on Richard M. Nixon John S. D. Eisenhower on Zachary Taylor Annette Gordon-Reed on Andrew Johnson Henry F. Graff on Grover Cleveland David Greenherg on Calvin Coolidge Gary Hart ...
... Harding, until 1929, when he retired after forswearing a second full term, Coolidge was enormously popular throughout his tenure—an icon of his era every bit as much as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, or Charlie Chaplin. Yet by 1981 the ...
... Harding, whose typical speech the Democratic politician William l\/lcAdoo 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 ...
... also, in the end, sparing in vision, without great aspirations for his presidency. Compared to the activist Theodore Roosevelt, the visionary Woodrow Wilson, or even the flamboyant Warren Harding, Coolidge was CALVIN COOLIDGF. ll.
... Harding, Coolidge was unambitious—lacking an ennobling idea of how to improve the country or even much of a positive program. In this regard, to be sure, he was hardly out of step with his times; only after the New Deal would Americans ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |