Composed with pointed ideological purpose, the bracing new biography Coolidge celebrates a president of character who cut taxes, reduced the national debt, and trimmed the federal government. In ...

Coolidge’s quietness proves you don’t need be loudly charismatic or a great orator to be successful in the nation’s highest office. He was inaugurated in 1923 following the death of President Warren ...

In honoring the centennial of Calvin Coolidge, sworn in as our first modern conservative president on August 3, 1923, we can benefit from reflecting on his achievements in overcoming national ...

Words from Calvin Coolidge To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. --At the White House, December 12, 1924 ...

'Debt takes its Toll.' Thus does Amity Shlaes begin her biography of Calvin Coolidge, the laconic, flinty-faced New Englander who became America's 30th president upon the death of Warren Harding ...

Nats to introduce Calvin Coolidge as latest Racing President. July 1, 2015 More than ... he was reliable,” said Amity Shlaes, author of the best-selling biography “Coolidge, ...

This is apparent from the book’s opening sentence: “Debt,” Shlaes intones, “takes its toll.” She begins by telling the story of a great-grand-uncle of Calvin Coolidge, a Vermont farmer ...

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota for a summer away from Washington, D.C.

It stopped Calvin Coolidge cold. As Robert E. Gilbert shows in his recent psychiatric biography, The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression, Coolidge ceased to ...

This Presidents’ Day, honor George Washington — and Calvin Coolidge by Matthew Denhart and Amity Shlaes, opinion contributors - 02/20/23 12:00 PM ET ...