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 ... leadership. Their inadequacies in the face of crisis allowed Lincoln and the second Roosevelt to show the difference ...
... 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 |