Book biographies of calvin coolidge
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Coolidge Books for the Holidays
By Jerry Wallace
M. C. Murphy, Calvin Coolidge: The Presidency and Philosophy of a Progressive Conservative
A new biography of Calvin Coolidge is certainly worth your attention. Mark C. Murphy, an experienced political analyst, became intrigued by Calvin Coolidge several years ago, seeing in him someone out of the ordinary: a thoughtful and accomplished politician. He decided to write Coolidge’s story, focusing on Coolidge’s political skills in handling the issues of his day and the philosophy of governance that guided him. Murphy titled this fresh account of Coolidge’s political career Calvin Coolidge: The Presidency and Philosophy of a Progressive Conservative.
There are three areas where Murphy’s biography excels. First, it is not a rehash of what you have read before about Mr. Coolidge. Rather, it is a thoroughly researched, well-thought-out, and finely written history, offering a new look at the Coolidge presidency.
Second, t
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The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Expanded and Annotated Edition
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
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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
My introduction to Calvin Coolidge on this journey included seven biographies providing nearly 3, pages &#; and almost two months &#; of entertainment (well&#;scholarship).
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