{"product_id":"2940169844238","title":"Coolidge","description":"Amity Shlaes, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Man\u003c\/em\u003e, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of Americaamp;#8217;s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidgeamp;#8217;s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: He left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited. A man of calm discipline, he lived by example, renting half of a two-family house for his entire political career rather than compromise his political work by taking on debt. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modernamp;#8212;an advocate of womenamp;#8217;s suffrage and a radio pioneer. At once a revision of man and economics, \u003cem\u003eCoolidge\u003c\/em\u003e gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114853253360,"sku":"2940169844238","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169844238_p0.jpg?v=1763695530","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169844238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}