Coolidge
by:
Amity Shlaes (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061967597 (0061967599)
Publish date: February 4th 2014
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 565
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
American,
Economics,
Politics,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
Presidents,
Us Presidents
Few presidents have fallen as far in terms of their reputation as has Calvin Coolidge. A popular president during his time in the White House, his standing plummeted with the onset of the Depression and the retroactive discrediting of his administration’s policies that were associated with it. Yet i...
Despite Amity Shlaes hitting all the requisites for a good biography, Calvin Coolidge has earned a spot on my meh list (though, rumor has it, such lists are, themselves now considered ’meh’). Maybe I was biased by his little stern, lipless face but he just never struck me as being all that likable. ...
“The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself.” -“The buck stops here!” - “ Ich bin ein Berliner!” –“ Tear down this wall!” – “I did not have sex with that woman.” The inspiration of the American experiment is fueled by the great words of her leaders. So powerful are these words, and the men w...
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