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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... Republican figured only marginally in the 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 ...
... Republican consultant Roger Stone hosted annual celebrations of the former president on July 4, which happened to be Silent Cal's birthday. In September ZOO6, the conservative Heritage Foundation hosted an evening entitled Z I'.-\\'lD t ...
... promoting the interests of private manufacturers and finance. Indeed, Coolidge described Hamilton's economic creed as central to the Republican Party of the 19295: “The party now in power . . . is representative ll I).\\'ID (]Rf.l:\'i§l1R( ...
... Republican Benjamin Harrison's presidential victory in 1888 over the incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland gave rise to unalloyed festivity at his high school. “Two nights were spent parading the streets with drums and trumpets," Coolidge ...
... Republican, naturally. For the next thirty years he would remain, almost uninterrupted, a holder of public office. Coolidge's rise in local, state, and national politics was as methodical as it was swift. He rarely held a position for ...
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 |