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See Joseph Postell and Johnathan O’Neill, eds., Towards An American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). See also their anthology, American Conservatism, 1900–1930: A Reader (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).

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See Lonce H. Bailey and Jerome M. Mileur, eds., In Defense of the Founders Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015). A similar text in this category is Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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See Calvin Coolidge, The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge, ed. Howard H. Quint and Robert H. Ferrell (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964).

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See Calvin Coolidge, Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages, Second Enlarged Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919); The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924); and Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses (New York: Scribner’s, 1926).

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Scanned transcripts of Coolidge’s presidential speeches are available through the Library of Congress’s American Memory Project, “Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and Consumer Economy, 1921–1929,” accessed February 1, 2019, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/coolbib:@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@3(Coolidge,+Calvin+1872+1933

+))+@field(OTHER+@3(Coolidge,+Calvin+1872+1933+))). Coolidge’s presidential writings are also available through the American Presidency Project, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, accessed February 1, 2019, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/advanced-search?field-keywords=&field-keywords2=&field-keywords3=&from%5Bdate%5D=&to%5Bdate%5D=&person2=200286&items_per_page=100&page=1.

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Calvin Coolidge, Your Son, Calvin Coolidge: A Selection of Letters from Calvin Coolidge to His Father, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (Montpelier, VT: Vermont Historical Society, 1968); Calvin Coolidge Says: Dispatches Written by Former-President Coolidge and Syndicated to Newspapers in 1930–1931, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (Plymouth, VT: Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1972). Coolidge wrote numerous pieces for journals and magazines, many of which are cited below.

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Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (Chatsworth, CA: National Notary Association, 1955 [1929]).

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Two other useful collections of Coolidge’s ideas were published during his lifetime. See C. Bascom Slemp, ed., The Mind of the President as Revealed by Himself in His Own Words: President Coolidge’s Views on Public Questions, Selected and Arranged by Subjects (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1926). See also Edward Elwell Whiting, ed., Calvin Coolidge: His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed through His Speeches and Writings (Boston: W.A. Wilde Company, 1924).

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Biographical information on Coolidge is widely available. The best biographies include Amity Shlaes, Coolidge (New York: HarperCollins, 2013); Robert Sobel, Coolidge: An American Enigma (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1998); and Claude Fuess, Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont (Boston: Little, Brown, 1940).

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The one exception is Robert Ferrell’s book on the Coolidge presidency. See Robert H. Ferrell, The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998).

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For example, consider Ellis Wayne Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, Second Edition (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992); and Robert K. Murray, The Politics of Normalcy: Governmental Theory and Practice in the Harding-Coolidge Era (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1973).

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See for example Paul Murphy’s intellectual history of the 1920s, which mentions Coolidge but once and only as a proto-conservative of the budget-hawk variety. Paul V. Murphy, The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). See also Niall Palmer, The Twenties in America: Politics and History (New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

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See Francis Russell, A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975); Hendrik Booraem V, The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885–1895 (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Press, 1994); Stephen Schuker, “American Foreign Policy: The European Dimension, 1921–1929,” in Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s, ed. John Earl Haynes (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998), 289–308.

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Among others, see R. M. Washburn, Calvin Coolidge: His First Biography (Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company, 1923), and Robert Archey Woods, The Preparation of Calvin Coolidge: An Interpretation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924). The best of these came out after Coolidge’s passing, though it was begun before 1933. See Claude Fuess, The Man from Vermont.

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William Allen White, A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938); Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919–1933, Volume I of The Age of Roosevelt (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 [1957]); Donald R. McCoy, Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967).

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See Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995); see also David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); and David Greenberg, Calvin Coolidge (New York: Times Books, 2006).

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Thomas B. Silver, Coolidge and the Historians (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press for the Claremont Institute, 1982); Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties (New York: Harper and Row, 1983).

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See Shlaes, Coolidge; Charles C. Johnson, Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President (New York: Encounter Books, 2013); Niall Palmer, Calvin Coolidge: Conservative Icon (New York: Nova Publishers, 2013).

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See John Almon Waterhouse, Calvin Coolidge Meets Charles Edward Garman (Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 1984); L. John Van Til, Thinking Cal Coolidge: An Inquiry into the Roots of His Intellectual Life (Glenwood, IL: Pine Grove Publishing, 2015).

20.

See Arther F. Fleser, A Rhetorical Study of the Speaking of Calvin Coolidge (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press, 1990).

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Joseph Postell, “‘Roaring’ against Progressivism: Calvin Coolidge’s Principled Conservatism,” in Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era, eds. Joseph Postell and Johnathan O’Neill (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013), 181–208. Gordon Dakota Arnold, “Calvin Coolidge: Classical Statesman,” Humanitas 32, no. 1 (Winter 2019–2020): 79–103.

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Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. by Thomas H. D. Mahoney (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955), 38. Calvin Coolidge, “Great Virginians,” in The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1924), 173.

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On Burke’s thought generally, see Jesse Norman, Edmund Burke: The First Conservative (New York: Basic Books, 2015); and Yuval Levin, The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left (New York: Basic Books, 2014). The new standard study of Burke is Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015); David Bromwich’s The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014) is another fine study of Burke’s thought.

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Coolidge, “Governor Coolidge’s Acceptance Speech,” in The New York Times, 28 July 1920.

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Coolidge, “Address at the Commencement of George Washington University,” 22 February 1929. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, accessed January 16, 2019, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=382&st=&st1=.

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See Greg Weiner, American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015), or Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953).

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Coolidge’s private secretary agreed on this, and the point is essentially demonstrated in the volumes that collected Coolidge’s ideas in similar form during his lifetime—see Coolidge’s own remarks on Bascom Slemp’s collection from 1926 in The Talkative President, 27.