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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... Wilson Alan Brinkley on John F. Kennedy Douglas Brinkley on Gerald R. Ford Josiah Bunting III on Ulysses S. Grant James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn on George Washington Charles W. Calhoun on Benjamin Harrison Gail Collins on William ...
... Wilson put it . Henry Adams , himself the great - grandson and grandson of presidents as well as the most brilliant of American historians , said that the American president " resembles the com- mander of a ship at sea . He must have a ...
... Wilson , “ that any man can lead who does not act . . . under the impulse of a profound sympa- thy with those whom he leads -- a sympathy which is insight — an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect . " " All of our ...
... Wilson before him , Coolidge governed mainly in this fashion , through what his aide Campbell Bascom Slemp called " direct reliance upon the mass of the people . " As his vice president , Charles Dawes , explained , " The popularity of ...
... 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.
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 |