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Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), the 30th President of the United States, wrote this autobiography titled “The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge,” four years after he left the presidency, In his autobiography, Coolidge reflects on his New England upbringing, his service as a local official, governor of Massachusetts, and his unexpected rise to the presidency following the death of Warren G. Harding
Having served as the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929, Calvin Coolidge was a man who embodied public service at its noblest. In this autobiography by Coolidge, he recounts his life in a modest but informative way.
Calvin Coolidge Cosmopolitan Book Corporation , 1929 - Biography & Autobiography - 246 pages CONTENTS: Scenes of My Childhood Seeking an Education The Law and Politics In National Politics On Entering and Leaving the Presidency Some of the Duties of the President Why I Did Not Choose to Run
"It was my hope to produce a book that would not only have some historical interest, but would be useful for those in public life, in educational work, in preparation for citizenship, and would be especially a book that parents would wish their children to read." --President Calvin Coolidge on his autobiography Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model.
as early as 1 840 it had about fourteen hundred in-. [5] CALVIN COOLIDGE. habitants scattered about the valleys and on the sides. of the hills, which the mountains divided into a con-. siderable number of different neighborhoods, each. with a well-developed local community spirit.
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.”
Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. 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 ...
