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New audiobook release: The autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
PGA Weblog ^ | July 30, 2025

Posted on 07/30/2025 7:44:58 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge was a great man and president, and his legacy is entirely unique. Sure, it is due in part to the timing of when he became President but the thing of it is that as President, he acted accordingly. He was the only President in U.S. history who defeated both the left-wing progressives(the Wilsonians) and the right-wing progressives.(The Bull Moosers)

Some people are placed in a position of greatness. Acting great once in that position is left solely to the man.

It is Calvin Coolidge, he is why the Progressive Era came to an end.

I hope you enjoy the audio recording of his life story from his own hand.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: audiobook; calvincoolidge; coolidge; freeperbookclub; librivox; pages; silentcal

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From what little I listened to this, it sounds well spoken and at a good pace.
1 posted on 07/30/2025 7:44:58 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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Ping list to new release, some courtesy additions


2 posted on 07/30/2025 7:52:44 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Did not know he wrote an autobiography.

I did read Amity Shlaes' biography of him - pretty interesting guy and a fiscal superstar.

3 posted on 07/30/2025 7:55:44 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The classic Coolidge anecdote:

President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” because of his extraordinarily laconic speech. A famous anecdote tells of a dinner party during which the person sitting adjacent to the Coolidge said: “Mr. President I’ve made a large bet that I would be able to make you say more than two words.” Coolidge considered this proposition carefully and then replied slowly and emphatically, “You lose.”


4 posted on 07/30/2025 7:57:43 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Psalm 73

Schlaes’ is the gold standard. However some years ago Coolidge’s autobio was re-released and Schlaes wrote an intro for it.


5 posted on 07/30/2025 8:00:29 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: Psalm 73
Yes, I was going to mention Amity Shlaes's not-too-long, very readable bio of Silent Cal. Highly recommended. His most devoted admirers will want the bobblehead for their nightstand.

6 posted on 07/30/2025 8:03:41 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

In contrast to the nasty and vindictive Wilson, Coolidge was singularly kind and polite. With power taken from the Progressives, they got revenge by deriding Coolidge as dull and unimaginative.


7 posted on 07/30/2025 8:15:09 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Blurb2350

That would look great on the shelf alongside my Barry Goldwater doll!


8 posted on 07/30/2025 8:16:34 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Sounds good and thank you for posting this.


9 posted on 07/30/2025 8:16:48 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Stosh

Lol that’s a great story.


10 posted on 07/30/2025 8:18:23 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Stosh

Upon hearing the news that Calvin Cooledge died, Dorothy Parker quipped “How could they tell?”


11 posted on 07/30/2025 8:38:48 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Calvin Coolidge was the only President who was born on the Fourth of July.

I've been to the cemetery where he is buried in Vermont--small cemetery and the simple marker is not pretentious at all, but his stone looked too new to be the original. Maybe someone had stolen or vandalized the original marker.

12 posted on 07/30/2025 8:44:50 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Interesting how Wilson and T. Roosevelt are both characterized as Progressives but on opposite ends on the Left/Right Political spectrum. Really need to check out the words/actions of both men and see if they’re just different pieces of a much bigger Goal. The obfuscation is getting more obvious. of the overall uniform Goal of One World Rule by the Enlightened Oligarchy for the past 100+ years. As long as there are “Teams” to root for, do We the Peasants ever really notice (or care) how we’re still being pushed to the Cliff regardless of who is in Office and which Party?


13 posted on 07/30/2025 9:15:47 AM PDT by Jarvis Law 2.0
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14 posted on 07/30/2025 11:00:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I have a piece of his nephews’ plane that was shot down in WW1.


15 posted on 07/30/2025 1:14:54 PM PDT by Colorado Doug
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I have a piece of his nephews’ plane that was shot down in WW1.

That's a remarkable piece of history! I have only a memory as a souvenir of Coolidge — our parents urgently warning me and my brothers never to wear shoes without socks, because Calvin Coolidge's son had died from it. His younger son had died of sepsis at age 16 from an infected blister on his foot after not wearing socks to play tennis. This must have saddened and scared my parents, hearing this in their childhood.

16 posted on 07/31/2025 6:47:30 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Albion Wilde

There is another quote from President Cooledge which I have found to be true in my life, time and time again. He said that if you see twenty troubles coming down the road, nineteen of them will fall in the ditch before they get to you.


17 posted on 07/31/2025 7:48:53 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Albion Wilde

That is a remarkable story. Thank you for sharing that.


18 posted on 07/31/2025 7:49:44 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: PUGACHEV

I agree! I’ve used that quote many times when I’m tempted to worry. Thanks for adding it!


19 posted on 07/31/2025 9:47:48 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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