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 ...

PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren Harding unexpectedly fell ill and died while visiting San Francisco. Five hours later, America had a new president: Calvin Coolidge, a man ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 4, 1925, nearly 100 years ago, President Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated for a second time. He served a partial term ...

Despite his farm upbringing, Coolidge fought farm relief legislation that might have saved American farms when the depression followed the stock market crash in 1929. Still Calvin Coolidge, a man with ...

¶ Pending bills (see THE CONGRESS), and what he would do about them if passed in such-and-such forms, kept President Coolidge busily occupied, conferring, suggesting, protesting, making himself felt, ...

He’s come down to us as a caricature: “Silent Cal,” a sour, skinflint, do-nothing president from an age of indolence. The reality is light-years removed from this cardboard character. On Aug. 2, it ...

Early one afternoon last week Senator Carter Glass was warmly expounding his bank reform bill on the Senate Floor when Senator Swanson, his Virginia Colleague, nudged him, whispered something. For a ...

Ahad said he had never, ever heard of Calvin Coolidge before bidding on the project for the state. I started liking this guy, he said, as he read about him and examined his writings. Ahad said ...

Presidents Day is a day set aside for the celebration and appreciation of our democracy and of our nation s leaders. We are blessed in America by the leadership we have enjoyed. Indeed many countries ...

The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924. By Jia Lynn Yang Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans ...