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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... wrote Edmund Starling, Coolidge's Secret Service agent and daily walking companion. "The president was the antithesis of all this and he despised it."9 But the president was no reactionary. He did not seek to stand athwart history ...
... wrote, a “Puritanism de luxe, in which it is possible to praise all the classic virtues while continuing to enjoy all the modern conveniences."12 Coolidge accommodated himself to a different aspect of modernity by speaking directly to ...
... According to one scholar's analysis of twenty-two Coolidge speeches, the president used the word I only once in some 52,094 words. “What Coolidge thinks of himself I daresay will never be known,” wrote Ci\l.\'lN (.IO()l.lD(iF. 7.
... wrote Mencken. “His self-revelations have been so few and so wary that it is even difficult to guess. No august man of his station ever talked about himself less.” Even in private conversations, Coolidge kept his guard up. In a rare ...
... wrote. Stories and wry comments about Coo]iclge's taciturnity are legendary. One of the best known concerns the writer Dorothy Parker's reaction to his death, in 1933. Informed of Coolidge's passing, the Algonquin Table wit didn't miss ...
Contents
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1 Out of Plymouth Notch | 15 |
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 |
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 |