Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Robert Ferrell offers the first book-length account of the Coolidge presidency in 30 years, drawing on the recently opened papers of White House physician Joel T. Boone to provide a more personal appraisal of the 30th President than has previously been possible. Ferrell shows Coolidge to have been a hard-working, sensitive individual who was a canny politician and an astute judge of people. Drawing on the most recent literature on the Coolidge era, Ferrell has constructed a meticulous and highly readable account of the President's domestic and foreign policy. His book illuminates this pre-Depression administration for historians and reveals to general readers a President who was stern in temperament and dedicated to public service.