Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes...

Calvin Coolidge (July 4, 1872-January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, becoming the state's 48th governor. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action. Coolidge was elected the country's 29th vice president the next...

"In this story of an era in American life, the figure of Calvin Coolidge, a curious reversion to an old type, stands out in contract to the vivid color of a gorgeous epoch. [The author] has talked to hundreds of people who knew and were associated with President Coolidge in those days, Cabinet members, friends, White House associates, reporters, business men, big and little; and his story throws a new light upon the inside of the White House and upon...