Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography

Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography

<b>Featured on C-SPAN American History TV and The John Batchelor Show</b><div><b></b><div><b>***</b></div><div><b></b><div><div><b></b></div><div><b>A Documentary Biography of America's Thirtieth President Calvin Coolidge </b></div><div>"Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography" reveals the "album version" of President Calvin Coolidge, featuring extended excerpts and, indeed, often the entire texts of major Coolidge addresses--as well as presenting a host of other illuminating documents, authored both by or about America's vastly underrated Thirtieth President.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It's all here:<span> </span></div><div><br /><ul><li><span>The classic opposites-attract love story of taciturn Cal Coolidge and his outgoing wife Grace Goodhue Coolidge.</span></li><li><span>Jack Kennedy had his Irish Mafia, Jimmy Carter had his Georgia Mafia. The story of Frank Stearns, Dwight Morrow, and Calvin Coolidge's "Amherst Mafia."</span></li><li><span>Phenomenal vote-getter Coolidge won more offices than any other president. The secret of how this painfully shy man did it. His strong appeal to Democrats.</span></li><li><span>The 1919 Boston Police Strike. How a city under siege ultimately makes Calvin Coolidge  president.</span></li><li><span>How a runaway 1920 GOP convention stampedes to nominate Coolidge for the vice-presidency.</span></li><li><span>Unbelievable tragedy visits in July 1924 as Calvin Coolidge stands to become president in his own right--the death of his son Cal Jr.</span></li><li><span>The Coolidge presidency: a partnership of three remarkable figures: Coolidge, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, and Budget Director Herbert Lord.</span></li><li><span>Coolidge vs. the Klan: reaching out to embattled minorities: Jews, blacks, Catholics.</span></li><li><span>The Puritan and the Samurai: Coolidge's relationship with Japan.</span></li><li><span>The gutsy Coolidge vetoes.</span></li><li><span>How Coolidge chose "not to run" in 1928.</span></li><li><span>Debunking the fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote. </span></li></ul><div> The book is further augmented by:<br /><div><div><div><div></div></div><ul><li>a Calvin Coolidge fact sheet. </li><li>a comprehensive Coolidge bibliography.</li><li>a detailed Coolidge time line. </li><li>a photo insert as well as illustrations throughout the text. </li><li>an essay detailing recently discovered facts regarding the fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote. </li></ul></div><div></div><div>In addition to numerous key speeches and texts from Coolidge himself, the volume includes contemporary readings from:</div><div><ul><li>Journalist Bruce Barton </li><li><i>The Boston Herald </i></li><li>Marion Leroy Burton </li><li>First Lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge </li><li>Vice President Charles G. Dawes </li><li>Rep. Frederick H. Gillett </li><li>Al Jolson </li><li>Columnist Walter Lippmann </li><li>Judge Wallace McCamant </li><li>Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon </li><li>Dwight W. Morrow </li><li>Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer </li><li>Columnist H. I. Phillips </li><li><i>The Pittsburgh Courier </i></li><li>Theodore Roosevelt </li><li>Secretary to the President C. Bascom Slemp </li><li>Frank W. Stearns </li><li>Coolidge biographer R. M. Washburn </li></ul><div><b>***</b></div><div></div><div>"an authority on the 1920s and [Calvin] Coolidge . . . David Pietrusza has brought Coolidge back to life with his volumes about the president . . ."<br /><b>                                                                                      --</b><b>Amity Shlaes, author of "Coolidge"</b></div></div><div><b></b></div><div>***</div><div><b></b></div><div><b></b></div><div><b></b></div><div><b></b></div><div></div><div><b>PRAISE FOR DAVID PIETRUSZA'S "SILENT CAL'S ALMANACK"</b> </div><div>"Calvin Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century and is certainly the most underrated. This book, compiled by one of my favorite historians, will give readers a full appreciation of why Silent Cal's wisdom shines like a beacon through the fog of historical amnesia." </div><div>                                                <b>--</b><b>Jonah Goldberg, author of "Liberal Fascism"</b></div></div></div><div></div></div></div><br /> </div><br /> </div>