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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... history , rendering the past more human , more vivid , more intimate , more accessible , more connected to ourselves . Biography reminds us that presidents are not supermen . They are human beings too , worrying about deci- sions ...
... history . Still , even in the absence of first - order crisis , forceful and persuasive presidents - Jefferson , Jackson , James K. Polk , Theodore Roosevelt , Harry Truman , John F. Kennedy , Ronald Reagan , George W. Bush -- are able ...
... history books and even less so in the nation's collective memory . 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 ...
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 |