Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America s Most Underrated President

Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America s Most Underrated President

<div>Imagine a country in which strikes by public-sector unions occupied the public square; where foreign policy wandered aimlessly as America disentangled itself from wars abroad and a potential civil war on its southern border; where racial and ethnic groups jostled for political influence; where a war on illicit substances led to violence in its cities; where technology was dramatically changing how mankind communicated and moved about-and where the educated harbored increasing contempt for the philosophic underpinnings of our republic.<br><br>That country, the America of the 1920s, looked a lot like America today. One would think, then, that the President who successfully navigated these challenges, Calvin Coolidge, might be esteemed today. Instead, Coolidge€s record is little known, the result of efforts by both the left and right to distort his legacy.<br><br><I>Why Coolidge Matters</I> revisits the record of our most underrated president, examining Coolidge€s views on governance, public sector unions, education, race, immigration, and foreign policy. Most importantly, <I>Why Coolidge Matters</I> explains what lessons Coolidge-the last president to pay down the national debt-can offer the limited government movement in the post-industrial age.<br></div>