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didn't significantly roll back the gains of the Progressive Era any more than Eisenhower undid the New Deal or Reagan repealed the Great Society .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 ...
... liberal wing and its conservative , pro - business " Old Guard . ” In Mas- sachusetts , Coolidge helped heal that breach , not because he was a Rooseveltian at heart but because he was temperamentally a mod-. CALVIN 23 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 |