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 ...
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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 |