Amity Shlaes, chairman of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, is the author of "Great Society" and co-editor, with Matthew Denhart, of a new edition of Coolidge's autobiography. Every ...

Calvin Coolidge “vacations” on his Vermont farm in 1937. ... Jews, women, blacks and Native Americans — into the Coolidge Prosperity. The free fall in the number of lynchings, ...

It was called the “Coolidge Prosperity.” Lastly, Coolidge didn’t have a problem with fighting a war of words against the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most powerful organizations at the time. His vocal ...

A new biography of Calvin Coolidge argues for a reassessment of him as the savior of the economy. ... This achievement, for Shlaes, was a source of great bounty—prosperity, rising wages, ...

Calvin Coolidge served as president during the economic heydey of the 1920s, seen by some as a conservative model of prosperity . National Archive/Getty Images.

Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. He was graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts ...

Calvin Coolidge was a child of fate if ever there was one. But he was more than that; he was a perfect product of his time and as such he exactly suited the American mood at the moment when that ...

WHEN Calvin Coolidge left the presidency in March 1929, having forsworn what surely would have been a reelection romp, he was basking in public adulation of a rare kind.

Calvin Coolidge. Born. July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, to John Calvin Coolidge Sr. and Victoria Josephine Moor (Coolidge). Education. Attended Black River Academy and Amherst College.

It stopped Calvin Coolidge cold. As Robert E. Gilbert shows in his recent psychiatric biography, The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression, Coolidge ceased to ...