A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover
By: edited by Katherine A.S. Sibley
Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to American history. Wiley Blackwell presidential companions
Publisher: Wiley/Blackwell
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 595
ISBN-13: 9781444350036
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Social conditions; Depressions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The background of Progressivism; title: The Wilson legacy, domestic and international / Christopher McKnight Nichols; title: Progressivism in an Age of Normalcy: women's rights, civil service, veterans' benefits, and child welfare / John Fox; title: US-foreign relations under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover: power and constraint / Alex Goodall; title: Part II. Warren G. Harding and the early 1920s; title: Harding's biographies / Justin P. Coffey; title: The front porch and the Harding election / Richard G. Frederick; title: Harding presidency: scandals, legacy and memory / Phillip G. Payne; title: The opposition: labor, liquor, and Democrats / Kristoffer Shields; title: No immigrants or radicals need apply: varieties of nativism in 1920s America / Alexander Pavuk; title: New technologies, communication and mass consumption / Jason N. Brock and R. Emmett Sullivan; title: Part III. Calvin Coolidge and his era; title: The biographical legacy of Calvin Coolidge and the 1924 presidential election / Jason Roberts; title: From "Coolidge prosperity" to "voluntary associationalism": Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover, and America's political economy in the Republican-era twenties / Daniel Michael Du Bois; title: Country and city, 1921-1933: fundamentalism; Scopes Trial; urbanization and suburbanization; the Middletown study / Scott A. Merriman; title: Native Americans: experiences and culture / Mary Stockwell; title: Military interventions and foreign affairs in the Coolidge administration: Latin America and Asia / Theodore J. Zeman; title: Race relations and the consequences of the great migration / Carol Jackson Adams; title: Eugenics, immigration restriction and the birth control movements / Ruth Clifford Engs; title: Popular culture during the "Jazz Age" and after / Jennifer Frost; title: Sports and pastimes in the 1920s / Martin C. Babicz; title: Part IV. Herbert Hoover and his era; title: Hoover biographies and Hoover revisionism / Brian E. Birdnow; title: The election of 1928 / Nicholas Siekierski and Richard G. Frederick; title: The economic historiography of the Great Depression (1929-1933) / Daniel A. Schiffman; title: The worsening of the great depression: Hoovervilles, farm troubles, bank crises / Dennis S. Hoff; title: Hoover's vision and his response to the Great Depression: voluntary efforts, public works, the gold standard, the RFC, the Farm Board, Hoover's reputation / Glen Jeansonne; title: Herbert Hoover's diplomacy toward Latin America / Paul Kahan; title: Ironies of character: Hoover's foreign policy with Asia / Michael E. Chapman; title: Women and minorities / Nancy Beck Young; title: Part V. In retrospect; title: Historians' views of the Republican era: was Roosevelt an entirely new turn? / Justus Doenecke.