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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... LEADERSHIP He was known as " Silent Cal . " Buttoned up and tight - lipped , Calvin Coolidge seemed out of place as the leader of a nation plunging headlong into the modern era . His six years in office were a time of flappers ...
... leaders of thought at a time when certain ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified . " So Washington incarnated the idea of federal union , Jefferson and Jackson the idea of democracy , Lincoln union and freedom , Cleveland ...
... leader - after Reagan , of course -- and the Republican consultant Roger Stone hosted annual celebrations of the former president on July 4 , which happened to be Silent Cal's birthday . In September 2006 , the conservative Heritage ...
... leadership . The same was true of Coolidge . Although the fires of political progressivism cooled in the 1920s , social change and modernization continued . The sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd called the decade " one of the eras of ...
... leader . It allowed different citizens to project onto him their own commonsense wisdom . 19 Coolidge could be chatty on occasion . Though hardly a natural conversationalist , he charmed guests . One visitor , Cordell Hull , the ...
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 |