Calvin Coolidge's leadership provides urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt and government power. The autobiography offers great insight into the man and his philosophy. 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 man caricatured as 'Silent Cal' was a gifted writer. 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. Amity Shlaes reclaimed a misunderstood president with her bestselling biography Coolidge.
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