Yet through breathtaking discipline and determination this unexpected president set America on a new course, won a stunning victory of his own in 1924, and restored the nation's confidence in itself. After all, "Silent Cal" was scarcely known to many Americans. Many considered the man who now moved into the highest office in the land, Vice President Calvin Coolidge, a lame duck. When President Warren Harding passed away suddenly in 1923, the nation seemed to be heading deeper into uncertainty. Will, this new edition of Amity Shlaes's brilliant and provocative New York Times bestselling biography examines an underrated chief executive who offered a model of presidential service strikingly different from that seen in America today.ĭaunting political divisions, war, pandemic, unrest in cities, budgetary crisis, economic disruption - all troubles we confront today - also challenged America a century ago.
Timed to the centennial of the Calvin Coolidge presidency and featuring a foreword by columnist George F.
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