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#1 Coolidge
04-10-2013, 05:45 PM
Release date: February 12, 2013
Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: He left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited. A man of calm discipline, he lived by example, renting half of a two-family house for his entire political career rather than compromise his political work by taking on debt. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modern—an advocate of women’s suffrage and a radio pioneer. At once a revision of man and economics, Coolidge gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today.
http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity...words=Coolidge
This is a must read for all conservatives.Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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04-10-2013, 05:48 PM
Before Reagan, Coolidge was the greatest President in History.
As it stands right now:
1) Reagan
2) Coolidge
3) Lincoln
Not one Democrat comes close to any of them. Unless you are talking about he worst President in history. At which point FDR is. Then Barry, and then Carter. Yes, Barry has surpassed Carter at this point.
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04-11-2013, 10:04 AM
I'm looking forward to reading this one. I saw an interview with Shaes about it on CSPAN's Book TV, and she's not a very compelling interview, but I've read another of her books and she's a pretty good writer.
"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken
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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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04-12-2013, 08:51 PM
Bottom three:
42: Lyin' Lincoln
43: Mr Peanut
44: The little oIt's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
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04-12-2013, 09:23 PM
I have it 2/3rds read and when I am finished I will find another about him, I am really impressed with him and didn't know much about him before.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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04-12-2013, 10:07 PM
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04-13-2013, 02:08 AM
Coolidge was arguably the last President we had who truly respected, indeed honored the Constitution. I can't think of one since who actually went out of his way to actually reduce the size of the federal government. Every "conservative" President since, including Reagan, has sought to "limit the size" of the federal government. My, what a novel idea...
Olde-style, states' rights conservative. Ask if this concept confuses you.
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04-13-2013, 02:23 AM
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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