Coolidge LP
by:
Amity Shlaes (author)
Amity Shlaes,Paperback - Large Print, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 02-12-2013
Amity Shlaes,Paperback - Large Print, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 02-12-2013
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062107176 (0062107178)
Publish date: February 12th 2013
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Pages no: 40
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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