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Chargement... The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidgepar Calvin Coolidge
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. If you want to get to know Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the United States, you cannot start in a better place than with this autobiography. The reader gets a strong sense of who Coolidge was. There is some very personal and touching passages on the death of his son Calvin (as well as his father) while he was president. However, not a lot on specific policies or issues. ( ) In the classic "Silent Cal" vein, his autobiography is concise, easily read yet speaks volumes. Never one to pass up a chance to teach, his childhood is explained with the vividness of a travel brochure and fondness of a family man. His political career, local, state and national portray a man who respects offices by not diminishing those who occupied them. President Calvin Coolidge explains the duties of a president well while stressing how difficult it is to convey the burden and solemnity of the highest office in the land. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Amity Shlaes reclaimed a misunderstood president with her bestselling biography Coolidge. Now she presents an expanded and annotated edition of that president's masterful memoir. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge is as unjustly neglected as Calvin Coolidge himself. The man caricatured as "Silent Cal" was a gifted writer. The New York Times called him "the most literary man who has occupied the White House since 1865." One biographer wrote that Coolidge's autobiography "displays a literary grace that is lacking in most such books by former presidents." The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility-rare qualities in Washington. The autobiography offers great insight into the man and his philosophy. Calvin Coolidge's leadership provides urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt and government power. Shlaes and coeditor Matthew Denhart, president of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, underscore those lessons in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge's text. This handsome new edition is the first to appear in nearly fifteen years. It includes several of Coolidge's greatest speeches, more than a dozen photographs, a timeline of Coolidge's life, and other new material. This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)973.91History and Geography North America United States 1901- Roosevelt Through Truman AdministrationsClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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