Calvin Coolidge on The Founders: Reflections on The American Revolution & The Founding Fathers

De: Calvin Coolidge

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In these pages Silent Cal Coolidge focuses his famed terse eloquence on the nation's founders, not merely on George Washington's indispensable figure but also on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, Washington's fellow Virginia patriots, the Battles of Bunker Hill, Princeton, and Trenton, Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys, Boston's Old North Church, Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis Asbury, and the pivotal role Jewish Americans played in winning of our freedoms. No modern president has spoken so much-or so well-of America's providential genesis.
Coolidge transforms mere history into a history lesson.
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Sarah Palin: "one of our most underrated presidents . . . Americans are awakening again to the wisdom of President Coolidge . . ."
"He wrote simply, innocently, artlessly," H. L. Mencken once noted regarding Coolidge's prose, "He forgot all the literary affectations and set down his ideas exactly as they came into his head. The result was a bald, but strangely appealing piece of writing—a composition of almost Lincolnian austerity and beauty. The true Vermonter was in every line of it."
Tim Naftali, Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum: "If you want to balance: it's Coolidge versus [Franklin D.] Roosevelt in dealing with the economy."
Says author Tucker S. Garland III: "The two most successful Republican presidents in the last century were Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan."
Says author Amity Shlaes: "Reagan himself admired Coolidge. It's time the rest of us did too."
Mark Steyn: "If you're like me and your idea of a conservative president is Calvin Coolidge . . ."
Will Cain says: "Calvin Coolidge is my favorite president."
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About the Editor:
David Pietrusza is the award-winning author of:
Silent Cal's Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (A Selection of the Conservative Book Club)
1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America (A Selection of the History Book Club)
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents (included among Kirkus Reviews Books of the Year 2007; a Selection of the History Book Club)
1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies (Booklist: "an outstanding re-examination"; Kirkus: "colorful . . . lively")
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series (an Edgar Award Finalist; its audio version captured the AUDIOFILE Earphones Award) Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (a CASEY Award Winner; Seymour Medal Finalist; and NASSH Award Nominee).
Pietrusza's powerful historical story-telling has been compared to that of H. L. Mencken, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edmund Morris, and Theodore H. White.
An expert on the 1920s, Pietrusza has served on the Board of the Directors and the National Advisory Board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.
He is also the author of The Roaring Twenties, an examination of the era for younger readers.
A respected commentator, Pietrusza has served as a regular panelist of FoxNews.com Live. He has appeared on C-SPAN BookTV (including "In Depth"), The History Channel, GBTV, NPR, ESPN, ESPN Classic, Bloomberg Radio News, The Fox News Channel, the Fox Sports Channel, Newsmax, and EBRU-TV.