A Documentary Biography of America's Thirtieth President Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography reveals the “album version” of President Calvin Coolidge, featuring extended excerpts and, indeed, often the entire texts of major Coolidge addresses—as well as presenting a host of other illuminating documents, authored both by or about America’s vastly underrated thirtieth president. Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography shines a searchlight on Silent Cal Coolidge’s world and worldview as no previous book ever has. It's all here: The opposites-attract love story of taciturn Cal Coolidge and his outgoing wife Grace Goodhue Coolidge. - Jack Kennedy had his Irish Mafia, Jimmy Carter had his Georgia Mafia. The story of Frank Stearns, Dwight Morrow, and Calvin Coolidge's "Amherst Mafia." - Phenomenal vote getter Coolidge won more offices than any other president. The secret of how this painfully shy man did it. His strong appeal to Democrats. - The 1919 Boston Police Strike. How a city under siege ultimately makes Calvin Coolidge president. - How a runaway 1920 GOP convention stampedes to nominate Coolidge for the vice-presidency. - Unbelievable tragedy visits in July 1924 as Calvin Coolidge stands to become president in his own right--the death of his son Cal Jr. - The Coolidge presidency: a partnership of three remarkable figures: Coolidge, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, and Budget Director Herbert Lord. - Coolidge vs. the Klan: reaching out to embattled minorities: Jews, blacks, Catholics. - The gutsy Coolidge vetoes. - How Coolidge chose "not to run" in 1928. Each entry also includes a revealing explanatory introduction by noted Coolidge scholar and award-winning author David Pietrusza. The book is further augmented by: a Calvin Coolidge fact sheet. - a comprehensive Coolidge bibliography. - a detailed Coolidge time line. - a photo insert plus illustrations throughout the text. - an essay detailing recently discovered facts regarding the fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote. In addition to numerous key speeches and texts from Coolidge himself, the volume includes contemporary readings from: Bruce Barton - The Boston Herald - Marion Leroy Burton - First Lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge - Vice President Charles G. Dawes - Frederick H. Gillett - Al Jolson - Walter Lippmann - Judge Wallace McCamant - Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon - Dwight W. Morrow - Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer - H. I. Phillips - The Pittsburgh Courier - Theodore Roosevelt - C. Bascom Slemp - Frank W. Stearns - R. M. Washburn PRAISE FOR DAVID PIETRUSZA’S “SILENT CAL’S ALMANACK” “Calvin Coolidge was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century and is certainly the most underrated. This book, compiled by one of my favorite historians, will give readers a full appreciation of why Silent Cal’s wisdom shines like a beacon through the fog of historical amnesia." —Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism "an authority on the 1920s and [Calvin] Coolidge . . . David Pietrusza has brought Coolidge back to life with his volumes about the president . . ." —Amity Shlaes Why Coolidge You may ask "Why Coolidge?"   Everyone asks "Why Coolidge?"   We are quite used it.   Here is my sound-bite answer (or, at least, one of them): Every politician that comes down the pike, promises  you four or five of the same things. He or she will cut taxes, reduce unemployment, spur growth, balance the budget, and suppress inflation. They all promise such things. They never do them--and we fall for it every time. Calvin Coolidge accomplished all of the above--and the historians say he was in office for five years and never did a damn thing. It's time to set the record straight. Ronald Reagan: "Now you hear a lot of jokes about Silent Cal Coolidge, but I think the joke is on the people that make jokes because if you look at his record, he cut taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known." Sarah Palin: "one of our most underrated presidents . . . Americans are awakening again to the wisdom of President Coolidge . . ." Grover Norquist: "We're looking for another Coolidge." "He wrote simply, innocently, artlessly," H. L. Mencken once noted regarding Coolidge's prose, "He forgot all the literary affectations and set down his ideas exactly as they came into his head. The result was a bald, but strangely appealing piece of writing--a composition of almost Lincolnian austerity and beauty. The true Vermonter was in every line of it." Author Amity Shlaes : "Reagan himself admired Coolidge. It's time the rest of us did too." Mark Steyn : "If you're like me and your idea of a conservative president is Calvin Coolidge . . ." George Will: "Calvin Coolidge, the last president with whom I fully agreed . . ." Will Cain : "Calvin Coolidge is my favorite president." Tim Naftali, Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum: "If you want to balance: i