Coolidge - Coolidge Centennial Edition by Amity Shlaes

Timed to the centennial of the Calvin Coolidge presidency and featuring a foreword by columnist George F. Will, this new edition of Amity Shlaes's brilliant and provocative New York Times bestselling biography examines an underrated chief executive who offered a model of presidential service strikingly different from that seen in America today. -- Daunting political divisions, war, pandemic, unrest in cities, budgetary crisis, economic disruption - all troubles we confront today - also challenged America a century ago. When President Warren Harding passed away suddenly in 1923, the nation seemed to be heading deeper into uncertainty. Many considered the man who now moved into the highest office in the land, Vice President Calvin Coolidge, a lame duck. After all, "Silent Cal" was scarcely known to many Americans. Yet through breathtaking discipline and determination this unexpected president set America on a new course, won a stunning victory of his own in 1924, and restored the nation'