Coolidge autobiography
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The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge
Subject:Silent Cal's Silent Memoirs
Calvin Coolidge had the good fortune to occupy the White House at a time of national peace and prosperity, inheriting the job on the death of Warren Harding in , and resigning of his own accord, in advance of the Wall Street crash of The events of his two terms are not much remembered, and neither is he. His memoirs could be of interest only to someone trying to investigate the astonishing corruption of Harding’s cabinet (in which he sat, as Vice-President), and wondering what he might have to say about it. The answer is that he says precisely nothing.
That, at least, is in character, for ‘Silent Cal’ would become a running joke as president. Supposedly a woman seated beside him at dinner said “Someone’s just bet me I won’t get more than two words out of you”, to which he replied “You lost.” If that wasn’t true, then it should have been, and his taciturnity extends into this little volume, perhaps the only presidential memoirs that a man can comfortably lift.
But don’t look for any miracles of distillation here. The first and better half simply describes a frugal upbringing in small-town Vermont and a good education at Amherst College. The
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Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers accusatory lessons oblige our new of exploding debt, more and more centralized hold sway, and wild partisan breaking up. This enlarged and annotated volume, emended by President biographer Willingness Shlaes beginning authorized hard the President family, interest the final edition own up the text that statesmanly historian Craig Fehrman calls “the unnoticed classic scholarship presidential writing”.
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