| Thinking Cal Coolidge: An Inquiry into the Roots of His Intellectual Life Contributor(s): Van Til, L. John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1519692692 ISBN-13: 9781519692696 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.56 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The image of Calvin Coolidge created by critics and hostile historians would seem to foreclose the possibility of thinking that Coolidge displayed a significant intellectual life. Most historians have embraced the notion that President Coolidge was bereft of intellectual power and certainly not possessed of organized ideas that could be used in the public square. The opposite is true. Calvin Coolidge was, indeed, a sophisticated thinker and writer, a characteristic ignored or unknown to textbook writers. Perhaps, Coolidge was "silent Cal," but he was also reading and writing and "thinking Cal." Calvin Coolidge was an extraordinary ordinary man-just right for the presidency in the 1920s. Perhaps, such a man is once again needed in the presidency as the 21st century unfolds. |
