Intercalado entre los avatares progresistas Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson y FDR, Calvin Coolidge recibió poca aclamación. Pero la historiadora y biógrafa d. Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, 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 /5(). Amity Shlaes. Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man: Graphic, a full length illustrated version of the same book drawn by Paul Rivoche, and Coolidge, a full-length biography of the thirtieth president, which debuted at number three on the Times list and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americas Crazy.
The aim is to bring TFM, which so many of you know, to new audiences. Paul did a splendid job, working with Chuck Dixon, in making the characters of the book come to life. We hope our readers will take a look. Available for order: To book Amity Shlaes for a speaking engagement, contact Jamie Brickhouse at the Red Brick Agency, Amity Shlaes sheds light on the life of Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth president of the United States. The harsh conditions of Coolidge's childhood shaped hi. In his review of Amity Shlaes's new biography, Coolidge, for The Wall Street Journal, the editor of The National Interest, Robert Merry, describes how the 30 th president achieved what he did, and why we should learn from his presidency today: At the end of World War I, the national debt stood at $27 billion, nine times its level before the war.
Amity Shlaes. Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man: Graphic, a full length illustrated version of the same book drawn by Paul Rivoche, and Coolidge, a full-length biography of the thirtieth president, which debuted at number three on the Times list and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americas Crazy. Tags. “ Coolidge ” is Amity Shlaes’s bestselling biography of the thirtieth president. Shlaes is a former editor at The Wall Street Journal and a former columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg magazine. She is currently chair of the board of trustees for the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and author of “ The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.”. Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from to , never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes, the author known for her riveting, unexpected portrait of the s, provides a similarly fresh look at the s and its elusive president.
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