The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility-rare qualities in Washington, then as now. To read this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. 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." In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge.Ĭoolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model.
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