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 Greenberg on Calvin Coolidge Gary ...
... 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 ...
... Harding , whose typical speech the 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 ...
... , he was also , in the end , sparing in vision , without great aspirations for his presi- dency . Compared to the activist Theodore Roosevelt , the visionary Woodrow Wilson , or even the flamboyant Warren Harding ,. CALVIN il COOLIDGE.
... 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 ...
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 |