Calvin Coolidge

Author : David Greenberg
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466823044

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Calvin Coolidge by David Greenberg Pdf

The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national 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, speakeasies, and a stock market boom, but his focus was on cutting taxes, balancing the federal budget, and promoting corporate productivity. "The chief business of the American people is business," he famously said. But there is more to Coolidge than the stern capitalist scold. He was the progenitor of a conservatism that would flourish later in the century and a true innovator in the use of public relations and media. Coolidge worked with the top PR men of his day and seized on the rising technologies of newsreels and radio to bring the presidency into the lives of ordinary Americans—a path that led directly to FDR's "fireside chats" and the expert use of television by Kennedy and Reagan. At a time of great upheaval, Coolidge embodied the ambivalence that many of his countrymen felt. America kept "cool with Coolidge," and he returned the favor.

Author : Calvin Coolidge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684516865

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The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge Pdf

"It was my hope to produce a book that would not only have some historical interest, but would be useful for those in public life, in educational work, in preparation for citizen­ship, and would be especially a book that parents would wish their children to read." —President Calvin Coolidge on his autobiography Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text that presidential historian Craig Fehrman calls "the forgotten classic of presidential writing." To read this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility—rare qualities in Washington, then as now. A man of great faith, Coolidge told Americans: "Men do not make laws. They do but discover them." Although he emphasized economics, Coolidge insisted on the importance of "things of the spirit." At the height of his popularity, he chose not to run again when his reelection was all but assured. In this autobiography, Coolidge explains his mindset: "It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man." For all his modesty, Coolidge left an expansive legacy—one we would do well to study today. Shlaes and ­coeditor ­Matthew Denhart draw out the lessons from Coolidge's life and career in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge's text. To aid Coolidge scholars young and old, the editors have also assembled nearly three dozen photographs, several of Coolidge's greatest speeches, a timeline of Coolidge's life, and afterwords by former Vermont governor James H. Douglas and two of Coolidge's great-grandchildren, Jennifer Coolidge Harville and Christopher Coolidge Jeter. This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge.

Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596987371

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Coolidge by Robert Sobel Pdf

In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader. Sobel instead exposes the real Coolidge, whose legacy as the most Jeffersonian of all twentieth century presidents still reverberates today.

Author : Robert H. Ferrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047071231

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The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge by Robert H. Ferrell Pdf

The first book-length assessment of Coolidge's presidency in thirty years draws on the recently opened papers of his White House physician for hitherto unknown personal information. Ferrell (history, Indiana U.) exonerates Coolidge for the failures of his party's foreign policy, but holds him accountable for having had insufficient economic savvy to warn Wall Street against the overspeculation that caused the Depression. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Heidi M.D. Elston
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781098212100

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Calvin Coolidge by Heidi M.D. Elston Pdf

This biography introduces readers to the life of Calvin Coolidge including his early political career and key events from Coolidge's administration including the Kellogg-Briand Pact and Coolidge Prosperity. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Charles C. Johnson
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594036699

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Why Coolidge Matters by Charles C. Johnson Pdf

Coolidge is one of the nation's most underrated presidents. Coolidge's thought on topics like public sector unions, education, race, governance, immigration, and foreign policy requires restoration if the constitutional, industrial republic is to be preserved in the modern age.

Author : Paul Joseph
Publisher : Checkerboard Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1577652371

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Calvin Coolidge by Paul Joseph Pdf

Discusses the personal life and political career of the man who became the thirtieth president of the United States in 1923 upon the death of President Harding.

Author : Amity Shlaes
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062097972

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Coolidge by Amity Shlaes Pdf

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: He left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited. A man of calm discipline, he lived by example, renting half of a two-family house for his entire political career rather than compromise his political work by taking on debt. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modern—an advocate of women’s suffrage and a radio pioneer. At once a revision of man and economics, Coolidge gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today.

Author : Calvin Coolidge
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589635388

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The Price of Freedom by Calvin Coolidge Pdf

?Of course it would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant. Oftentimes the inconvenience and loss fall on the innocent. This is all a part of the price of freedom. Unless the people struggle to help themselves, no one else will or can help them. It is out of such struggle that there comes the strongest evidence of their true independence and nobility, and there is struck off a rough and incomplete economic justice, and there develops a strong and rugged national character. It represents a spirit for which there could be no substitute. It justifies the claim that they are worthy to be free.? Calvin Coolidge

Author : John Derbyshire
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312140444

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Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream by John Derbyshire Pdf

Former Red Guard and middle-aged Chinese immigrant Chai pursues an obsession with the late American president Calvin Coolidge, while Chai's wife, Ding, is forced to save their marriage when he is tempted by a women from his past

Author : Calvin Coolidge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89073107443

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The Quotable Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge Pdf

Calvin Coolidge has long been dismissed as silent, and with little to say. This collection of over 250 quotations reveals the concise, direct, even eloquent way he stated his views on issues still relevant to the interests of contemporary America. The quotations cited by date and circumstances are organized alphabetically for use by speakers, writers, researchers, and policy makers - in fact, anyone with an interest in American history. Also included are Milestones in Coolidge's life, a Selected Bibliography, and a listing of Coolidge Archives headed by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation in Plymouth Notch, Vermont.

Author : Seth Tupper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625857668

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Calvin Coolidge in the Black Hills by Seth Tupper Pdf

“Well-written . . . analysis and insight into what role the crisp, clean Black Hills air may have had in the culmination of a successful political career” (The Washington Times). On August 2, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge shocked the nation by announcing he would not seek reelection. The declaration came from the Black Hills of South Dakota, where Coolidge was vacationing to escape the oppressive Washington summer and to win over politically rebellious farmers. He passed his time at rodeos, fishing, meeting Native American dignitaries and kick-starting the stagnant carving of Mount Rushmore. But scandal was never far away as Coolidge dismissed a Secret Service man in a fit of anger. Was it this internal conflict that led Coolidge to make his famous announcement or the magic of the Black Hills? Veteran South Dakota journalist Seth Tupper chronicles Coolidge’s Black Hills adventure and explores the lasting legacy of the presidential summer on the region. Includes photos “The book sets out to examine such questions as why the president chose to travel west and why he used the trip to make the announcement that he would not run for president again in 1928 . . . well documented and filled with fascinating details.” —The Washington Free Beacon

Author : William Allen White
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 963 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789127119

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A Puritan in Babylon by William Allen White Pdf

This book, which was first published in 1938, began as a biography of Calvin Coolidge, but author William Allen White found early in his task that he was writing the story of the growth and rise of economic America from the seventies until the crash of the Coolidge bull market in the autumn of 1929. In this story of an era in American life, the figure of Calvin Coolidge, a curious reversion to an old type, stands out in contrast to the vivid color of a gorgeous epoch. The history of the Coolidge bull market in detail from 1921, when Coolidge came to Washington as Vice President, until 1929, when he left Washington and public life, had not been written before. As that market boomed, Calvin Coolidge as President, having all the virtues needed for another day, moved through the turmoil of the times earnestly, honestly, courageously trying to understand his country’s economic development and to act upon his understanding of a movement that baffled him and left him futile. Mr. White talked to hundreds of people who knew and were associated with President Coolidge in those days. Cabinet members, friends, White House associates, reporters, business men, big and little; and his story throws a new light upon the inside of the White House, and upon the President through the years.

Author : Thomas J. Tacoma
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793624410

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The Political Thought of Calvin Coolidge by Thomas J. Tacoma Pdf

Arguing that Calvin Coolidge was a Burkean conservative and an Americanist politician, Tacoma analyzes the way Coolidge responded to the challenge of upholding American civilization in a changing world by contextualizing Coolidge's thought in the Progressive milieu of the age and examining the core of Coolidge's political thought: civilization.

Author : Jerry L. Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 0981649009

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Calvin Coolidge by Jerry L. Wallace Pdf