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The Real Calvin Coolidge Back Issues

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Number 1 (1983) Not Available
The Real Calvin Coolidge comment by Grace Coolidge
President Coolidge, Salesman by Alfred E. Smith
$3.25 A Word! by Richard H. Waldo
When Blame Was Praise by Andrew W. Mellon
His Silence and His Thrift by Bernard M. Baruch
$1,000,000,000 for Prohibition by Theodore Roosevelt
A Little Girl’s Sore Finger by Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow
Why He Did Not “Choose to Run” by Hubert Work
Nice Custom by Richard J. Rahar
A Depression Even More Depressing by Otis Skinner
The President and the Flowers by Roy O. West

Number 2 (1984)
The Real Calvin Coolidge comment by Grace Coolidge
His First Job by Henry P. Field
How to Escape a Lecture by Will Rogers
“I Want a Raise!” by Ernestine Cady Perry
President and Prince Autograph a Bucket by Henry Ford
His Only Defeat by John J. Kennedy
Football “Medicine” by James F. Coupal, M.D.
The President Shouldn’t Know Too Much by Bruce Barton

Number 3 (1985)
In Defense of a “Foreign” Painter by Ercole Cartotto
He Saw Beyond Congress by Charles G. Dawes
“Things I Did not Say” by Dwight F. Davis
When the President Wept by John T. Lambert
Calvin Coolidge and Vermont Some Reflections by Victor R. Swenson
The Resurrection of Calvin Coolidge by J.R. Greene
Book Reviews
Coolidge and the Historians (1982) by Thomas B. Silver
The Carving of Mount Rushmore (1985) by Rex Alan Smith

Number 4 (1986)
Coolidge’s Boyhood by Ernest S. Kavanagh
Calvin Coolidge: The Twilight Years by Richard Norton Smith
Book Reviews
Return to These Hills (1986) by Jane Curtis, Will Curtis & Frank Lieberman

Number 5 (1987)
The Inspiration of the Declaration by Calvin Coolidge
Monumental History by Daniel J. Heisey
The Beeches by Daisy Mathias & Robert Nelson
Book Reviews
The President’s House by William Seale
Calvin Coolidge Meets Charles Edward Garman by John Almon Waterhouse

Number 6 (1988)
Birthplace of Grace Goodhue Coolidge by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
Yankees in the White House by Irving Bell
The Death and Funeral of Calvin Coolidge by Todd W. Van Beck
When “Silent Cal” Used Cocaine by Milton F. Heller, Jr.
Book Reviews
Calvin Coolidge & His Family: An Annotated Bibliography (1987) by Clifford A. Pease, Jr.
Calvin Coolidge: A Biography in Picture Postcards (1987) by J.R. Greene
First Ladies (1987) by Betty Boyd Caroli
Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History (1988) by Paul F. Boller, Jr.

Number 7 (1989)
Play Hide – and – Seek with Silent Cal’s Inaugural Medal by Darrell C. Crain, M.D.
Pepper on Coolidge by Daniel J. Heisey
Calvin Coolidge by George Wharton Pepper
Kentucky Lives: Starling of the White House
Book Reviews
“Coolidge Country” Cookbook by Kathleen E. Donald & John Almon Waterhouse-reviewed by Mrs. Clifford A. Pease, Jr.
Calvin Coolidge/Encyclopedia of Presidents Series (1988) by Zachary Kent
Review by J.R. Greene
A President in a Two-Family House, Calvin Coolidge of Northampton by Allison Lockwood
Review by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
All The Presidents Ladies – Anecdotes of the Women Behind the Men in the White House
(1988) by Peter Hay – review by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
Homes of the Presidents (1987) by Bill Harris – review by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.

Number 8 (1990)
A Democrat Views Coolidge by John Karol
The Calvin Coolidge Papers at the Library of Congress by John E. Haynes
The Real Calvin Coolidge reprinted from Good Housekeeping, May 1935
The Three Purgatories by Herbert Hoover w/ Mrs. Coolidge’s comments
Book Reviews
Grace and Cal by Gloria May Stoddard – reviewed by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
A Modern View of the Coolidge Image - Popular Images of American Presidents, edited by William C. Spragens – reviewed by J.R. Greene

Number 9 (1992) Not Available
Calvin Coolidge Speaks by Howard M. Packard
Championing the Negro by John G. Sargent –comments by Mrs. Coolidge
The Great Auto Fraud by John Coolidge – comments by Mrs. Coolidge
The Rejected War Memorial by John J. Pershing – comments by Mrs. Coolidge
Book Reviews
Harry S. Truman, Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman – edited by Margaret Truman
Reviewed by Daniel J. Heisey
Eliot Asinof, 1919: America’s Loss of Innocence – reviewed by J.R. Greene

Number 10 (1994)
Grace Coolidge and the Clarke School for the Deaf by Charles McPhail Anderson
Grace Goodhue Coolidge by Susan Webb
Grace Coolidge—The First Lady of Baseball by David Pietrusza
Book Reviews
Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography – edited by Lawrence E. Wikander and Robert H. Ferrell – reviewed by Lewis L. Gould

Number 11 (1995)
Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy by Hendrick Booraem V
Actor Jim Cooke is setting the Record Straight by Tom Slayton
Suzanne (Boone) Spends a Night at the White House –oral history interview with Admiral Boone
Book Reviews
Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958) – reviewed by Daniel J. Kelley

Number 12 (1997)
Letters unearthed by Lawrence E. Wikander
Letters to President Calvin Coolidge from his Aunt Gratia Wilder of Plymouth, VT.
Entitled Aunt Grace Writes Her Nephew
Correspondence from Calvin Coolidge’s Personal Files Absentee Landlord where he as president writes those entrusted to run the Coolidge farm property in Plymouth and receives their replies.
Book Review
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream by John Derbyshire – reviewed by Jim Cooke
Book Review
First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives by Margaret Truman – reviewed by Paul D. DiCarlo

Number 13 (1998)
Celebration of the 75th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge’s homestead inaugural. Jim Cooke has done extensive research to produce his article on who was really in the room with Calvin Coolidge when he was sworn in as president by his father.
Articles by Lawrence Wikander
Will Rogers and Calvin Coolidge
The Second Oath
Book Review
America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Sean Dennis Cashman – reviewed by J.R. Greene
Anxious Decades. America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 by Michael E. Parrish – reviewed by J.R. Greene

Number 14 (1999)
The Boones and the Coolidges written by Dr. Boone’s son-in-law, Milton Heller. Dr. Boone was Calvin Coolidge’s White House physician and was devoted to both Calvin, Jr. and John, the president’s sons.
Grace and Calvin’s Pets in the White House by David Pietrusza
Oratory in History, Coolidge’s high school graduation essay, from the Vermont Historical Society.