| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
CATALOGED FROM WEB PAGE. |
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"Unabridged." |
| Performer |
Narrated by Terence Aselford. |
| Summary |
"[A] reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge's improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: He left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited. A man of calm discipline, he lived by example, renting half of a two-family house for his entire political career rather than compromise his political work by taking on debt. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modern-- an advocate of women's suffrage and a radio pioneer" -- from publisher's web site. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Aselford, Terence. Narrator.
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| ISBN |
9780062119124 |
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0062119125 |
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