Ronald Reagan: "Now
you hear a lot of jokes
about Silent Cal Coolidge,
but I think the joke is on
the people that make
jokes because if you look
at his record, he cut taxes
four times. We had
probably the greatest
growth and prosperity that
we've ever known."

Sarah Palin: "one of our most
underrated presidents . . .
Americans are awakening
again to the wisdom of
President Coolidge . . ."

"He wrote simply, innocently,
artlessly,"
H. L. Mencken once noted
regarding Coolidge's prose,
"He forgot all the literary
affectations and set down his
ideas exactly as they came
into his head. The result was
a bald, but strangely
appealing piece of writing—a
composition of almost
Lincolnian austerity and
beauty.
The true Vermonter was in
every line of it."

Grover Norquist:
"We're looking for another
Coolidge."

Tim Naftali, Director of the
Richard Nixon Presidential
Library
and Museum:
"If you want to balance: it's
Coolidge versus [Franklin
D.] Roosevelt in dealing with
the economy."

Author Tucker S. Garland
III: "The two most successful
Republican presidents in the
last century were Calvin
Coolidge and Ronald
Reagan."

Amity Shlaes: "Reagan
himself admired Coolidge.
It's time the rest of us
did too."

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr:
"one of the most successful
presidents. He reversed the
economic insolvency of
President Woodrow Wilson,
and set the economy on the
road to growth . . ."

Mark Steyn: "If you're like
me and your idea of a
conservative president is
Calvin Coolidge . . ."

George Will says: "Calvin
Coolidge, the last president
with whom I fully agreed . . ."

Robert Merry: "The Coolidge
years represent the country's
most distilled experiment in
supply-side economics—and
the doctrine's most
conspicuous success."

Will Cain says: "Calvin
Coolidge is my favorite
president."
David Pietrusza Discussing Calvin Coolidge on
the Glenn Beck Program September 2010
Amity Shlaes and David Pietrusza
Amity Shlaes and David Pietrusza Discussing
Calvin Coolidge at the
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, October 2010
Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography reveals
the “album version” of President Calvin Coolidge, featuring
extended excerpts and, indeed, often the entire texts of
major Coolidge addresses—as well as presenting a host of
other illuminating documents, authored both by or about
America’s vastly underrated thirtieth president.
Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography shines a
searchlight on Silent Cal Coolidge’s world and worldview
as no book ever has.

It's all here:

  • The opposites-attract love story of taciturn Cal Coolidge and
    his outgoing wife Grace Goodhue Coolidge.
  • Jack Kennedy had his Irish Mafia, Jimmy Carter had his
    Georgia Mafia. The story of Frank W. Stearns, Dwight
    Morrow, and Calvin Coolidge's "Amherst Mafia."
  • Phenomenal vote-getter Coolidge won more offices than any
    other president. The secret of how this painfully shy man did
    it. His strong appeal to Democrats.
  • The 1919 Boston Police Strike. How a city under siege
    ultimately makes Calvin Coolidge president.
  • How a runaway 1920 GOP convention stampedes to
    nominate Coolidge for the vice-presidency.
  • Unbelievable tragedy visits in July 1924 as Calvin Coolidge
    stands to become president in his own right—the death of his
    young son Cal Jr.
  • The Coolidge presidency: a partnership of three remarkable
    figures: Coolidge, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, and
    Budget Director Herbert Lord.
  • Coolidge vs. the Klan: reaching out to embattled minorities:
    Jews, blacks, Catholics.
  • The gutsy Coolidge vetoes.
  • Coolidge's startling chosing "not to run" in 1928.
  • Debunking the fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote.

Each entry also includes a revealing explanatory introduction by
noted Coolidge scholar and award-winning author David
Pietrusza. The book is further augmented by:

  • a Calvin Coolidge fact sheet.
  • a comprehensive Coolidge bibliography.
  • a detailed Coolidge time line.
  • a photo insert as well as illustrations throughout the text (not
    available in NOOK version).
  • an essay detailing recently discovered facts regarding the
    fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote.

In addition to numerous key speeches and texts from Coolidge
himself, the volume includes contemporary readings from:

  • Journalist Bruce Barton
  • The Boston Herald
  • Marion Leroy Burton
  • First Lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge
  • Vice President Charles G. Dawes
  • Speaker of the House Frederick H. Gillett
  • Al Jolson
  • Columnist Walter Lippmann
  • Judge Wallace McCamant
  • Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon
  • Dwight W. Morrow
  • Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer
  • Columnist H. I. Phillips
  • The Pittsburgh Courier
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Secretary to the President C. Bascom Slemp
  • Frank W. Stearns
  • Coolidge Biographer R. M. Washburn

David Pietrusza is the award-winning author of:


Pietrusza's powerful historical story-telling has been compared to that of H. L.
Mencken, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edmund Morris, Theodore H. White, Tom Wolfe,
and Gene Fowler.

An expert on the 1920s, Pietrusza has served on the Board of the Directors and the
National Advisory Board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation.

He is also the author of The Roaring Twenties, an examination of the era for younger
readers.

A respected commentator, Pietrusza has served as a regular panelist of FoxNews.com
Live. He has appeared on C-SPAN BookTV (including its prestigious "In Depth"
series), The History Channel ("The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents"), GBTV, NPR,
ESPN, ESPN Classic, Bloomberg Radio News,The Fox News Channel, the Fox
Sports Channel, and EBRU-TV.
From David Pietrusza,  
Editor of Silent Cal's Almanack

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"David Pietrusza has brought
Coolidge back to life with his
volumes about the president . . ."
—Amity Shlaes