| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 565 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [471]-535) and index. |
| Contents |
The curse -- Snowbound -- The Ouden -- Determination -- The Roosevelt way -- War -- The strike -- The reign of law -- Normalcy -- "A most insignificant office" -- The budget -- The siege and the spruce -- The flood and the flier -- Decision at Rushmore -- Coolidge agonistes -- The shield and the book -- Coda: The blessing. |
| Summary |
Calvin Coolidge never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and our elusive thirtieth president. Coolidge reveals a triumphant period in which the nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus--and the little-known man behind it. Though dismissed as quiet and passive, Coolidge proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. Perhaps more than any other president, he understood that doing less could yield more, reducing the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped. |
| Subject |
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929.
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| ISBN |
9780061967559: $35.00 |
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0061967556 |
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