With Herbert Hoover already in Washington, the Coolidge era seemed to hurry to its close. Who but the historian recalls an August night among the Vermont hills less than six years ago—reporters in ...

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A founder of modern conservativism who ushered in an era of prosperity, Calvin Coolidge must be recognized as one of the great presidents. According to AEI scholar Matthew Continetti, the ...

Born: July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont... His 1923 State of the Union address to Congress was the first ever to be broadcast via radio. He would continue to use the medium effectively, giving ...

Amity Shlaes, Coolidge, 576 pp., $35.00. AMITY SHLAES, the economic historian who almost single-handedly forced a reappraisal of the 1930s with her best-selling The Forgotten Man, now sets out to do ...