From Publishers Weekly In this inflated revisionist biography, Sobel seeks to overturn the image of Calvin Coolidge as a taciturn, do-nothing president. He portrays his subject as an embodiment of the ethos of a vanished America, a pragmatic politician who espoused a philosophy of a passive execut
The Coolidge effect
β Scribed by MALIN, MORTON
- Book ID
- 109732311
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 305
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/305570e0
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Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression. No