The presidency of Calvin Coolidge
By: Robert H. Ferrell.
Series: American presidency series
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933; United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929
Description: Robert Ferrell offers the first book-length account of the Coolidge presidency in thirty years, drawing on the recently opened papers of White House physician Joel T. Boone to provide a more personal appraisal of the thirtieth president than has previously been possible. Ferrell shows Coolidge to have been a hard-working, sensitive individual who was a canny politician and an astute judge of people.

Drawing on the most recent literature on the Coolidge era, Ferrell has constructed a meticulous and highly readable account of the president's domestic and foreign policy. His book illuminates this pre-Depression administration for historians and reveals to general readers a president who was stern in temperament and dedicated to public service.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-233) and index.