Essays delivered at The JFK Conference

Sheldon M. Stern:

Welcome and Introduction

William Allen White and the Origins of the Coolidge Stereotype

Allison Lockwood:

The Coolidges of Northampton: Memories of The President and His Two-Family House

Alvin S. Felzenberg:

Calvin Coolidge and Race: His Record in Dealing with the Racial Tensions of the 1920s

Bernice Buresh:

Calvin Coolidge and Me

Christopher Coolidge Jeter:

Growing Up a Coolidge

Cynthia D. Bittinger:

Calvin Coolidge's Courting Letters, 1904-1905

Hendrik Booraem:

Coolidge and the Zen of Politics: How An Aloof, Reticent and Austere Man Achieved Success in Politics

Hugh Sidey :

Coolidge's Relevance

J. R. Greene:

Calvin Coolidge and the Vice-Presidency: His Introduction to Washington Politics

Jim Cooke:

Calvin Coolidge: More Than Two Words

John Derbyshire:

A Novelist Takes on Calvin Coolidge

Lydia Coolidge Sayles

Grace Coolidge, My Grandmother

Michael S. Dukakis:

From the Legislature to the Corner Office: An Assessment of Coolidge's Performance as a Massachusetts Political Leader

Richard C. Garvey:

Coolidge and the Northampton Irish: A Strange Alliance

Richard Norton Smith:

Calvin, We Hardly Knew Ye: Keynote Address

Robert H.Ferrell:

Calvin Coolidge: the Man and the Myth

Robert E. Gilberet:

The Trauma of Death: President Coolidge and the Loss of His Son

Robert Novak:

Coolidge's Legacy

Robert Sobel:

Coolidge and American Business