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Author:
Amity Shlaes
Jeff Deist
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Sandwiched between progressive avatars Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR, Calvin Coolidge gets little acclaim. But Coolidge historian and biographer Amity Shlaes makes the case for libertarians to view “Silent Cal” favorably, as someone who deeply and instinctively distrusted grandiose government. With the Great War over, Coolidge called