Why Coolidge matters: leadership lessons from America's most underrated president

✍ Scribed by Coolidge, Calvin;Johnson, Charles C

• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1st American ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why Coolidge matters -- "In the eye of the nation": the political servitude and practice of Calvin Coolidge -- Calvin Coolidge, "the pillars of liberty and equality," and "the struggle for sound progress" -- "I thought I could swing it": Calvin Coolidge's Hamiltonian executive in full -- Calvin Coolidge and the "possibilities of soul" -- How progressive political thought undermined America's defense.;Imagine a country in which strikes by public-sector unions occupied the public square; where foreign policy wandered aimlessly as America disentangled itself from wars abroad and a potential civil war on its southern border; where racial and ethnic groups jostled for political influence; where a war on illicit substances led to violence in its cities; where technology was dramatically changing how mankind communicated and moved about?and where the educated harbored increasing contempt for the philosophic underpinnings of our republic. That country, the America of the 1920s, looked.

✦ Table of Contents

Why Coolidge matters --
"In the eye of the nation": the political servitude and practice of Calvin Coolidge --
Calvin Coolidge, "the pillars of liberty and equality," and "the struggle for sound progress" --
"I thought I could swing it": Calvin Coolidge's Hamiltonian executive in full --
Calvin Coolidge and the "possibilities of soul" --
How progressive political thought undermined America's defense.

✦ Subjects

HISTORY--United States--20th Century;Political leadership--United States;Political leadership;Politics and government;;Case studies;Coolidge, Calvin, -- 1872-1933;Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies;United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929;HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century;United States