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Coolidge

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ISBN-10: 0061967599

ISBN-13: 9780061967597

Edition: N/A

Authors: 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…    
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Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Amity Ruth Shlaes (born September 10, 1960) is an American author and columnist from New York, who writes about politics and economics.