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 /5(43). 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 Brand: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. Calvin Coolidge's reputation as a calm individual with a quiet demeanor keeps him from looming large in the history of the Presidency. But if he was reticent as a speaker, he was an expressive writer, and his autobiography is a terrific reminder to the 21st Century that a President's ability to dominate the news headlines is no measure of Presidential success or www.doorway.ru by:
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge is an autobiography written by former United States President Calvin Coolidge. It was published in , shortly after Coolidge left office. Coolidge's autobiography consisted of about 45, words, unusually short in comparison to the era's typical "long-winded" biographies and autobiographies. "The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge" is a wonderful counterpoint to the modern presidential memoir. The book, originally published in , is now issued in a handsome paperback edition that. Calvin Coolidge's reputation as a calm individual with a quiet demeanor keeps him from looming large in the history of the Presidency. But if he was reticent as a speaker, he was an expressive writer, and his autobiography is a terrific reminder to the 21st Century that a President's ability to dominate the news headlines is no measure of Presidential success or failure.
Coolidge takes two of the book’s seven chapters to recall his 51/2 years as president. “It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country,” he writes. Amity Shlaes reclaimed a misunderstood president with her bestselling biography Coolidge. Now she presents an expanded and annotated edition of that president’s masterful memoir. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge is as unjustly neglected as Calvin Coolidge himself. The man caricatured as “Silent Cal” was a gifted writer. Calvin Coolidge had the good fortune to occupy the White House at a time of national peace and prosperity, inheriting the job on the death of Warren Harding in , and resigning of his own accord, in advance of the Wall Street crash of The events of his two terms are not much remembered, and neither is he.
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