Calvin coolidge autobiography
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The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge
Subject:Silent Cal's Silent Memoirs
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 1923, and resigning of his own accord, in advance of the Wall Street crash of 1929. The events of his two terms are not much remembered, and neither is he. His memoirs could be of interest only to someone trying to investigate the astonishing corruption of Harding’s cabinet (in which he sat, as Vice-President), and wondering what he might have to say about it. The answer is that he says precisely nothing.
That, at least, is in character, for ‘Silent Cal’ would become a running joke as president. Supposedly a woman seated beside him at dinner said “Someone’s just bet me I won’t get more than two words out of you”, to which he replied “You lost.” If that wasn’t true, then it should have been, and his taciturnity extends into this little volume, perhaps the only presidential memoirs that a man can comfortably lift.
But don’t look for any miracles of distillation here. The first and better half simply describes a frugal upbringing in small-town Vermont and a good education at Am
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The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Expanded and Annotated Edition
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. 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 definitive edition of the text that presidential historian Craig Fehrman calls “the forgotten classic of presidential writing.”
To read this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility—rare qualities in Washington, then as now. A man of great faith, Coolidge told Americans: “Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.” Although he emphasized economics, Coolidge insisted on the importance of “things of the spirit.” At the height of his popularity, he chose not to run again when his reelection was all but assured. In this autobiography, Coolidge explains his mindset: “It is a