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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... senate as president of the body—advice he heeded himself. As president, he would prove a welcome contrast to his bombastic predecessor, Harding, whose typical speech the Democratic politician William l\/lcAdoo described as “an army of ...
... Senate, “he made no friends among the Senators," wrote Oswald Garrison Villard in the Nation, “and ate his lunch from a tin box in a corner ofa committee room.” Even in lighter moments, Coolidge remained poker-faced. “He never smiled ...
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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 |
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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 |