Online Resources

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation

The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum

The White House’s Calvin Coolidge Page

The White House’s Grace Coolidge Page

The Universtiy of Virginia’s Miller Center’s Calvin Coolidge Reference Resource

PBS’s American Experience Coolidge Page

Presdident Calvin Coolidge Vermont State Historic Site

Black River Academy Museum

Plymouth, VT Municipal and Community Website

Works by Calvin Coolidge

Coolidge, Calvin. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929.

Coolidge, Calvin. Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

Coolidge, Calvin. The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1924.

Coolidge, Calvin. The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century, ed. Peter Hannaford. Burlington, VT: Images from the Past, 2001.

Ferrell, Robert H., and Howard H. Quint, eds. The Talkative President: The Off-the-record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964. Reprint, New York: Garland Pub., 1979.

Pietrusza, David, ed. Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont’s Calvin Coolidge. Privately printed, 2008.

Biographical Works

Booraem, Hendrik V. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1994.

Curtis, Jane and Will with Frank Lieberman, Return to These Hills: the Vermont Years of Calvin Coolidge. Woodstock, VT: Curtis-Lieberman Books, 1985.

Ferrell, Robert H. The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. American Presidency Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Fuess, Claude Moore. Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.

Gilbert,  Robert E. The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.

Green, Horace. The Life of Calvin Coolidge. New York: Duffield and Co., 1924.

Greenberg, David. Calvin Coolidge. New York: Henry Holt/Times Books, 2006.

Hennessey, M. E. Calvin Coolidge: From a Green Mountain Farm to the White House.  New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1924.

Lathem, Edward Connery. Meet Calvin Coolidge: The Man Behind the Myth. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1960.

McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Reprint, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.

Silver, Thomas B. Coolidge and the Historians. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1982.

Sobel, Robert. Coolidge: An American Enigma. Washington DC: Regenery Publishers, 1998.

Waterhouse, John Almon. Calvin Coolidge Meets Charles Edward Garman. Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 1984.

Webb, Kenneth. From Plymouth Notch to President: The Farm Boyhood of Calvin Coolidge. Taftsville, VT: Countryman Press, 1978.

Well, Susan Lewis. Calvin Coolidge: At Home in Northampton. Northampton, MA: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum, Forbes Library, 2008.

Contemporary Accounts

Coolidge, Grace. Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography. Edited by Lawrence F. Wikander and Robert H. Ferrell. Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing Co., 1992.

Day, Clarence. In the Green Mountain Country. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1934. (This work recounts Calvin Coolidge’s death and funeral.)

Lovestone, Jay. The Coolidge Program: Capitalist Democracy & Prosperity Exposed. New York: Workers Library, 1927.

Roberts, Kenneth L. Concentrated New England: A Sketch of Calvin Coolidge. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1924.

Slemp, C. Bascom. The Mind of the President. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1926, reprinted by John S. Swift Company, Inc., April, 1981.

Washburn, R.M. Calvin Coolidge: His First Biography. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1923.

White, William Allen. Calvin Coolidge: The Man Who Is President. New York: Macmillan, 1925.

White, William Allen. A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge. Gloucester, MA: Peter Allen, 1973.

Whiting, Edward Elwell. President Coolidge: A Contemporary Estimate. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923.

Woods, Robert Archey. The Preparation of Calvin Coolidge: An Interpretation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.

The Coolidge Era and the 1920s

Abels, Jules. In the Time of Silent Cal. New York: Putnam, 1969.

Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Bernays, Edward L. Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel Edward L. Bernays. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.

Hawley, Ellis W. The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933. 2nd edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Hawley, Ellis W., ed. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1981.

Haynes, John Earl, ed. Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era : Essays on the History of the 1920s. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998.

Hounshell, David A. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. “From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture, 1880-1930.” In The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980, edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

May, Lary. Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Ross, Ishbel, Grace Coolidge and Her Era : The Story of a President’s Wife. Plymouth, VT: The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1988.

Smulyan, Susan. Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934.Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Wikander, Lawrence E. and Ferrell, Robert H. Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography. Worland, WY: High Plains Press, 1992.

Bibliographies and Other Useful Sources

Greene, J.R. A bibliography of pamphlets relating to Calvin Coolidge, 1910-1988. Northampton, MA: Forbes Library, 1989.

Moran, Philip R., comp. and ed. Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1970.