Coolidge

by Amity Shlaes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061967599
• ISBN13: 9780061967597
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.1"