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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... Progressive Era reforms had coun- tered some of the worst depredations of the unfettered capitalism of the Gilded Age . By the 1920s , a view was emerging that capitalists ' new sense of social responsibility would preclude the need for.
... Progressive Era any more than Eisenhower undid the New Deal or Reagan repealed the Great Society . And if he frowned upon the culture of the 1920s , he smiled contentedly at the rising living stan- dards that made it all possible ...
... Progressive Era reforms had made Washington respon- sible for a host of new realms of commerce and industry . America's rise to global stature carried unavoidable commitments . Roosevelt and Wilson had arrogated power to the White House ...
... conservative and progressive strains . The first state to abolish slavery , Vermont prided itself on its religiously rooted egalitarianism , though its lack of racial and ethnic. CALVIN COOLIDGE: 1. Out of Plymouth Notch.
... Progressive , or " Bull Moose , " Party , he exacerbated a rift in the GOP between its liberal wing and its conservative , pro - business " Old Guard . ” In Mas- sachusetts , Coolidge helped heal that breach , not because he was a ...
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 |