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A review by jimbowen0306
Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
3.0
This book is about Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter who rose to become America's 30th President in the mid 1920s (he was initially Harding's Vice President, until Harding's death).
This wasn't a bad book. It read pretty well, and moved at a good lick. My problem is that I think it doesn't necessarily bear comparison to other American political biographies I've read lately.
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent enough read in its own right (even if it portrays Coolidge as someone who never saw a buck he didn't know how to stretch), it's just compared to Caro's book about Johnson in the Senate, this book just doesn't feel as well researhed or well written.
If you've not read Caro's book, you'll probably enjoy this one better.
This wasn't a bad book. It read pretty well, and moved at a good lick. My problem is that I think it doesn't necessarily bear comparison to other American political biographies I've read lately.
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent enough read in its own right (even if it portrays Coolidge as someone who never saw a buck he didn't know how to stretch), it's just compared to Caro's book about Johnson in the Senate, this book just doesn't feel as well researhed or well written.
If you've not read Caro's book, you'll probably enjoy this one better.