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 . " 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 moder- nity by speaking ...
... 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 ...
... wrote . Stories and wry comments about Coolidge'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 ...
... wrote Oswald Garrison Villard in the Nation , " and ate his lunch from a tin box in a corner of a committee room . ” Even in lighter moments , Coolidge remained poker - faced . “ He never smiled when he was telling a joke or making a ...
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 |