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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... decades of the twentieth century , 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 ...
... and Helen Lynd called the decade " one of the eras of greatest rapid- ity in change in the history of human institutions . " America was plunging headlong into modernity , with its whirligig of jazz. 4 DAVID GREENBERG.
... decades of the new cen- tury had transformed the role of the federal government and the presidency . Progressive Era reforms had made Washington respon- sible for a host of new realms of commerce and industry . America's rise to global ...
... decade , a spi- ral of stock - market speculation - goosed the economy and gave the decade its heady rush.25 Coolidge's narrow conception of his role as president also led him to stay largely on the sidelines of the decade's culture ...
... . To understand that critical decade , then , it is necessary to reckon with Calvin Coolidge , the thirtieth president of the United States . 1 Out of Plymouth Notch Calvin Coolidge remembered the rustic. 14 DAVID GREENBERG.
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 |