Silent Cal's Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge
About this audiobook
A treasury of the wit and wisdom of Calvin Coolidge, America's surprisingly eloquent 30th President.
Silent Cal's Almanack includes:
* The ultimate distillation of Calvin Coolidge political wisdom.
* A selection of Silent Cal's key speeches.
* A thought-provoking original biographical essay.
* A fascinating and unique 50-page portfolio of Coolidge photos, editorial cartoons and campaign memorabilia.
* A Coolidge timeline.
* A Coolidge bibliography.
"He wrote simply, innocently, artlessly," H. L. Mencken once noted regarding Coolidge's prose, "He forgot all the literary affectations and set down his ideas exactly as they came into his head. The result was a bald, but strangely appealing piece of writing-a composition of almost Lincolnian austerity and beauty. The true Vermonter was in every line of it."
Supreme Court Justice David Souter recently wrote of Calvin Coolidge: "The simple beauty of his English prose exceeds anything I could say in praise of it."
About the author
Award-winning historian David Pietrusza has been called "the undisputed champion of chronicling American Presidential campaigns.” His books include studies of the 1920, 1932, 1948, and 1960 presidential elections and biographies of Theodore Roosevelt (Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal, US History), gambler Arnold Rothstein (Edgar Award finalist) and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (Casey Award winner).
Pietrusza has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Voice of America, The History Channel, AMC, and ESPN. He has spoken at the JFK, FDR, Truman, and Coolidge presidential libraries, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and various universities and festivals.
A former member of the Amsterdam (NY) City Council, he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University at Albany, is a Recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Arts & Letters Award of the Alumni Association of the University at Albany, and a charter member of the Greater Amsterdam School District Hall of Fame.
Visit: www.davidpietrusza.com
