Calvin Coolidge: A Biography (Signature Series)

There has been no modern biography of Calvin Coolidge, and no unbiased assessment of his long political career. The only two serious prior biographers were restricted both by their political predilections and by the limited amount of available material when they wrote their books a quarter of a century ago. Professor McCoy, a specialist in twentieth-century American affairs, has spent seven years in the preparation of this present 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."