{"product_id":"coolidge-9780061967597","title":"Coolidge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Amity Shlaes's new biography carries a different and highly relevant message. . . . Read \u003cem\u003eCoolidge\u003c\/em\u003e, and better understand the forces bearing on the President and Congress almost a century later.\" -- Paul Volcker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Man\u003c\/em\u003e comes a brilliant and provocative biography of our thirtieth president that reexamines this restrained, soft-spoken man -- and the decade of growth that grew from his leadership.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmity Shlaes, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Man\u003c\/em\u003e, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge'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 modern--an advocate of women'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShlaes, Amity:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAmity Shlaes is the author of four \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers: \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Man\/Graphic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCoolidge\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Book Prize, and serves as a scholar at the King's College. A former member of the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal's \u003c\/em\u003eeditorial board, Miss Shlaes published a weekly syndicated column for more than a decade, appearing first in the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, then in \u003cem\u003eBloomberg\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644436517138,"sku":"9780061967597","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ababf480-321b-4ab0-8e8e-a553869e5e89.jpg?v=1733110139","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/coolidge-9780061967597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}