![]() ![]() Coolidge's discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength. Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism.Īlthough Coolidge was sometimes considered old-fashioned, he was the most modern of presidents, advancing not only the automobile trade but also aviation, through his spirited support of Charles Lindbergh. Shlaes shows that the mid-1920s was, in fact, a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: the nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus. Now Amity Shlaes, the author known for her riveting, unexpected portrait of the 1930s, provides a similarly fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. ![]()
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