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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... helped maintain a robust prosperity for his five and a half years in office- but also contributed to the crash and Great Depression that fol- lowed . Reagan remembered only the upside . " He cut the taxes four times , " Reagan said in ...
... helped mute public enthusiasm for activist government, he didn't significantly roll back the gains of the Progressive Era any more than Eisenhower undid the New Deal or Reagan repealed the Great Society. And if he frowned upon the ...
... helped him maintain his pop- ularity . His addresses were less finely reasoned arguments than reas- suring homilies , but they disposed people to feel positively about him and the country . Indeed , for a supposedly silent man , many of ...
... helped arrange the young man's admission to Amherst . He matriculated in 1891 , at the age of nineteen.9 At college , Coolidge followed a trajectory similar to his path in high school , starting off socially isolated but finding a place ...
... between its liberal wing and its conservative, pro-business “Old Guard." In Massachusetts, Coolidge helped heal that breach, not because he was a Rooseveltian at heart but because he was temperamentally a moderate, CALVIN CO(')I.II')GE Z3.
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 |