…for his civil rights legacy, in my new post at Cato. More on the Calvin Coolidge record from Cato colleagues Gene Healy (reviewing Amity Shlaes’s biography), more, and Dan Mitchell.
…for his civil rights legacy, in my new post at Cato. More on the Calvin Coolidge record from Cato colleagues Gene Healy (reviewing Amity Shlaes’s biography), more, and Dan Mitchell.
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Warren Harding also spoke up for Black Americans, though he was not able to do much for them. On a different theme, Harding’s laissez-faire response to the depression of 1920-21, originally reviled dynamic progressive historians, is being favorably contrasted by some revisionists to the progressive floundering of Hoover and FDR in 1929-1938.
I consider Coolidge to be, if not our greatest president, certainly the most underrated and underappreciated.
“I consider Coolidge to be, if not our greatest president, certainly the most underrated and underappreciated.”
Concur.