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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... popular with the American people . At a time of social upheaval and cultural transformation , Coolidge embodied the ambivalence that many of his countrymen felt for the fast - paced , urban , sophisticated 1920s . America kept " cool ...
... popular throughout his tenure - an icon of his era every bit as much as Charles Lindbergh , Babe Ruth , or Charlie Chaplin . Yet by 1981 the long - departed Yan- kee Republican figured only marginally in the history books and even less ...
... popular culture , Coolidge survived not in weighty biographies but tucked away in novels such as Nathanael West's 1934 gem , A Cool Million , which parodies Coolidge as the former president Shagpoke Whipple , whose Horatio Alger - style ...
... popular opinion behind his presidency . " Decisions in the modern state tend to be made by the interaction , not of ... popularity of Coolidge ... is due to the fact that he , not [ Congress ] , best understood the people and they him ...
... popular support - making him , in this sense , a truly modern president . Notwithstanding Coolidge's frequent public comments , and the care that went into forging his " Silent Cal " image , his taciturnity was no myth : Coolidge was ...
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 |