
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition
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Terence Aselford
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past...to America’s 30th president, Calvin Coolidge.
Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text that presidential historian Craig Fehrman calls “the forgotten classic of presidential writing”.
To hear this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. The Coolidge who emerges in this audiobook is a model of character, principle, and humility - rare qualities in Washington, then as now. A man of great faith, Coolidge told Americans: “Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.” Although he emphasized economics, Coolidge insisted on the importance of “things of the spirit”. At the height of his popularity, he chose not to run again when his reelection was all but assured. In this autobiography, Coolidge explains his mindset: “It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man.”
For all his modesty, Coolidge left an expansive legacy - one we would do well to study today. Shlaes and coeditor Matthew Denhart draw out the lessons from Coolidge’s life and career in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge’s text.
This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge.
©1929 Calvin Coolidge; renewed 1957 by Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Editorial matter for this edition © 2021 by the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation (P)2021 by Blackstone PublishingListeners also enjoyed...




















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Excellent!
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What’s funny is I remember my teachers and textbooks attacking President Coolidge and his administration. If most of what you’ve learned comes from your public education, I feel sorry for you. As Adam Smith said, “Surely no acquirement which can possibly be derived from what is called a public education can make any sort of compensation for what is almost certainly and necessarily lost by it.”
Our greatest president?
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A leader we need today!
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Former President Calvin Coolidge was truly an exceptional man. He represented everything good about the Americans of his time. I got a Washingtonian vibe off him- he was dedicated to serve the nation instead of himself.
Civil rights were very important to him and he felt it was better to strip away bad laws than make new good ones 👍.
He had a good heart and most notably, a very humble one. He was not obsessed about power.
What was so exceptional about him was he decided that the life of the president he was not for him and he stepped down instead of walking into a guaranteed second term.
Please read this book. Coolidge is a president. We should all aim for our politicians to be like God first and America first.
“A president should not only not be selfish, but he ought to avoid the appearance of selfishness.” - CC
American Exceptionalism
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Candid selflook at probably the US most underrated president
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This was OK but I’m glad I didn’t pay for it
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A good human not making his presidency about himself.
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A president of impeccable character and intelligence.
A great little memoir of an honorable and humble public servant, a time period, and a successful presidency.
One of my favorite presidents.
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The reader captured the author's character with a tremendous workmanlike precision that reminds me of my grandfather with whom I would dearly have loved to share this book.
Calvin Coolidge Speaks to Us Still
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