The 1924 Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln Tour

by Larry L. Krug

The Coolidge-Dawes caravan followed the route of the Lincoln National Highway (Route 30) from Plymouth, VT for 56 days in travel to the Pacific coast. Hundreds of speaking programs were organized along the path. The book is fully illustrated with posters, photographs and political memorabilia.

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Bibliography of Pamphlets Relating to
Calvin Coolidge 1910-1988
 

J.R. Greene, Northampton, Massachusetts: Forbes Library, 1989.

A listing of several hundred pamphlets, flyers, booklets and broadsides, many annotated.
7 Illustrations, 50 pp.

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Calvin Coolidge and His Family:
An Annotated Bibliography
 

Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D. Plymouth, Vermont. Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1987. Printed by Academy Books.

A complete annotated listing of 45 books with total Coolidge content; 31 on Coolidge; 12 of his writings and speeches; 2 of family.
Illus. 48 pp.

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Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era Essays on the History of the 1920s

ed. John Earl Haynes ©1998 The Library of Congress

New research on Calvin Coolidge with Paul Johnson, Robert Ferrell, and George Nash with nine other academics.

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Calvin Coolidge:
Cartoons of His Presidential Years

edited by Edward Connery Lathem, Lunenburg, Vermont, The Stinehour Press, 1973.

The cartoons, mainly drawn by Ding Darling appeared in newspapers in the 1920’s. Most showed the “homely virtues for which Mr. Coolidge was so generally admired,” quoted the Boston Herald, 1933.

One of these cartoons was shown by Donald Harpster at the National Council for History Education conference and many more cartoons are on this website.

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Calvin Coolidge:
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

This recent reprint is made possible through the generosity of the National Notary Association, with the active support and encouragement of the President Milton G. Valera, the Executive Director Tim Reiniger, and the Director of Strategic Planning, Steven Bastian. We thank Jim Cooke and Sheldon Stern for collaborating on an introduction for modern readers. Jim Cooke has added an impressive index as well. The endorsements from historian Richard Norton Smith, historian Robert H. Ferrell, U.S. Senator James M. Jeffords, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, and Governor of Vermont, James Douglas, also show modern readers the lasting importance of this biography.

Richard Norton Smith, Executive Director, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum says:
“Shattering the caricature of Silent Cal, this is actually one of the most revealing of all presidential memoirs. On the subject of his Vermont boyhood, his democratic roots, and those whom he loved and lost, Calvin Coolidge could be downright lyrical. Ghosts haunt these pages—not thankfully, ghost writers. Every word and emotion is pure Coolidge. A deeply moving, often surprising, self-portrait by one of America’s most singular men.”

Click here for a review by Cyndy Bittinger.

Cassette available.

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Calvin Coolidge The Quiet President

Donald R. McCoy, published by American Political Biography Press.

Professor McCoy, a specialist in twentieth-century American affairs, spent seven years on the preparation of this study, which is both a biography and an assessment of, in the author’s words, “a politician who was less than crafty, a President who deserves some praise and much understanding along with criticism.”

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Coolidge An American Enigma

Robert Sobel ©1998 Regnery Publishing, Washington DC

Is a first-rate study of perhaps America’s most misunderstood president. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the Jazz Age, American politics, and U.S. presidential history.

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Encyclopedia of Presidents
Calvin Coolidge

Zachary Kent ©1988 Childrens Press, Chicago

Part of the excellent series on American Presidents published by Childrens Press.

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From Plymouth Notch to President
The Farm Boyhood of Calvin Coolidge

Kenneth B. Webb 1978 The Countryman Press, Taftsville, VT

Illustrated by Florence Baker Tarpin. A study of farm and country life; how environment shaped the life and destiny of an intelligent sensitive boy, for your readers.

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Grace Coolidge and Her Era:
The Story of a President's Wife

Ishbel Ross CCMF ©2002 Ishbel Ross

This beautifully written biography of a President’s wife has just been re-issued by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. There is a new foreword by Jennifer Coolidge Harville, great granddaughter of Grace Coolidge. She concludes by saying, “This book provides us with one of the best historical accounts of Grace Coolidge’s life. It is important for us to supplement this resource with oral history shared by people who knew Mrs. Coolidge. We need to preserve their memories, thoughts, and impressions of Grace’s persona. Sharing her spirit will help us keep the legacy of Grace Coolidge alive for generations to come.”

The book traces the life of Grace Coolidge from her childhood through her years as a teacher of the deaf, then as wife of the rising politician, Calvin Coolidge, and eventually as First lady.

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Grace Coolidge: Sudden Star

By Cynthia D. Bittinger ©2005

Grace Coolidge was a modern woman. Born in 1879, she participated in many changes for women in American society. She was a friendly, lively woman who was interested in public service and education of the deaf from an early age. In 1920, she voted for her husband as Vice President! (This was the first national election where women could vote.) Once in Washington, Grace enjoyed the fashions of the times and found a new passion: sports. Grace and Calvin came to the White House after the death of President Warren Harding. They were suddenly placed in the spotlight and the new first lady, Grace Coolidge, was a "sudden star", unknown to the public before her new role. This personal story of Grace Coolidge is augmented with her letters, newly donated from the Coolidge family and others. Robert P. Watson is editor of this series on presidential wives.

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Growing Up in Plymouth Notch, Vermont
1872-1895, The Boyhood of Calvin Coolidge
a mini-biography

by Sally Thompson ©1972 CCMF

An account of Coolidge’s formative years, largely in his own words.

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