Amity Shlaes’s new biography ushers in a long-overdue rehabilitation of the 30th president. For the next decade or so, it may be Amity Shlaes who has custody of Coolidge’s reputation. At once a revision of man and economics, Coolidge gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today. Shlaes impresses readers with the single-mindedness of Coolidge’s pursuit. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modern-an advocate of women's suffrage and a radio pioneer. 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. Francona: By Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy. To anyone who has ever been dismayed by excessive government spending, Coolidge (Harper, 2013), Amity Shlaes ’ revisionist biography of America’s 30 th president, is a welcome corrective. 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. This biography reclaims the 30th president as a conservative hero.

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. In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees. Now she presents an expanded and annotated edition of that president’s masterful memoir. Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. Amity Shlaes reclaimed a misunderstood president with her bestselling biography Coolidge.

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