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Coolidge: an American Enigma

By Robert , Sobel

Book information

Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Year
2012
ISBN
9781596987371, 1596987375
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
509 kB (521224 bytes)
Pages
472 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1872-1933;Presidents--United States;United States-CalvinCoolidge

Description

From Publishers WeeklyIn this inflated revisionist biography, Sobel seeks to overturn the image of Calvin Coolidge as a taciturn, do-nothing president. He portrays his subject as an embodiment of the ethos of a vanished America, a pragmatic politician who espoused a philosophy of a passive executive branch. Although Coolidge took no actions to promote race relations, never spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan and passed a restrictive immigration bill that singled out Japanese for exclusion from entering the U.S., the 30th president is presented here as a champion of civil rights.

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