I began reading this book in Mexico but it is just now when I am moving along with his life. The biography was written by Amity Shlaes and I am enjoying it very much. I know very little about Calvin Coolidge except that he was not verbose. When he died, Teddy Roosevelt daughter is quoted as saying "How did they know"?
The more I read about the man the better I like him. Would it not be wonderful to have a politician who did not speak much? These days, they never stop talking. I am reading the book slowly and carefully and only read a few chapters at a time, to give me time to digest the information. With in the past year or so I have read a biographies of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, also Justice Brandeis, who were all contemporary with Coolidge so I must fit all the puzzle pieces together.
Coolidge would be a breath of fresh air to Washington these days. The problem is with our present system of nominating a candidate for president. He would never go through the process to get to be the candidate. The more I read about him the better I like him. We need someone like him to come along....and soon.
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