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Calvin Coolidge was one of America's most unusual presidents.
Selected as vice president by rebellious convention delegates and
thrust unexpectedly into the presidency on the death of his
predecessor, he nonetheless imprinted his authority on both party
and country. Like Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Bill
Clinton, he came to personify not just an administration but a
social and political era'. Although historians still dispute his
legacy, the thirtieth president's image remains both distinctive
and enduring. This is partly because Coolidge was a walking
contradiction of his times. He had little of the charisma' deemed
essential to political success and was obsessed with fiscal
prudence in an age of acquisitiveness and wild financial
speculation. His economic views were more suited to a nineteenth
century agrarian nation than to an emerging industrial-capitalist
giant. His personal life embodied the values of white, Puritan New
England, not those of the big northern cities, whose
cosmopolitanism and moral relativism increasingly set the tone for
the nation in the Coolidge years.
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