Calvin Coolidge: A Documentary Biography

Calvin Coolidge "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.

It's all here:

• The classic 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 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 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.

• How Coolidge chose "not to run" in 1928.

• Debunking the fabled Coolidge "Persistence" quote.

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.

• 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

• Rep. Frederick H. Gillett

• Al Jolson

• Columnist Walter Lippmann

• Judge Wallace McCamant

• Treasury Secretary 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