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Coolidge | Amity Shlaes
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Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: He left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited. A man of calm discipline, he lived by example, renting half of a two-family house for his entire political career rather than compromise his political work by taking on debt. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modern—an advocate of women’s suffrage and a radio pioneer. At once a revision of man and economics, Coolidge gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today.
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Coolidge | Amity Shlaes
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My #bookspin reads for October. Since I had some built-up Audible credits I now have audio copies of both for my daily commute on the bus. (I can‘t read in motion without getting sick.) I‘m feeling promising about this month‘s goal!

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Amiable
Coolidge | Amity Shlaes
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This e-book is on sale for $1.99 at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon today. @ljuliel , did you say you wanted to read this one? For some reason I thought it was you who mentioned it ...

ljuliel Thanks for the heads up. Yes, I remember making a comment about it. He was quite a dapper looking fellow ! I know little to nothing about him, so I should read a bit more about him. 4y
Amiable @ljuliel $1.99 is a great price to give Silent Cal a go! :) I'm going to have to read it, too (I own the book but haven't opened it yet). Coolidge is my boss's favorite president. I'm not sure exactly why. 4y
ljuliel Well that would be enough right there to make you want to read it. He‘s not one of the most popular names you hear, so that‘s interesting that your boss would choose him. 😊 4y
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