Much like Margaret Leech before him, Edmund Morris is really good at the political biography insult. Here are just two of his descriptors that I've come across recently:
"that jovial Methodist bison Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver"
"a senator who generally displayed a public appetite for pork such as the Armour Brothers meat-packing company might fail to satisfy"
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Calvin Coolidge: 1923 - 1929
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Calvin Coolidge: 1923 - 1929
Curriculum
- 1. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis [September 2009]
- 2. John Adams by David McCullough [October 2009]
- 3. Thomas Jefferson by R.B. Bernstein [October 2009]
- 4. James Madison by Ralph Ketcham [November 2009]
- 5. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Henry Ammon [December 2009]
- 6. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul Nagel [January 2010]
- 7. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham [February 2010]
- 8. Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics by Joel Silbey [March 2010]
- 9. Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert M. Owens [April 2010]
- 10. John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward P. Crapol [May 2010]
- 11. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry [June 2010/November 2010]]
- 12. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer [December 2010]
- 13. Millard Fillmore by Robert J. Scarry [January 2011]
- 14. Franklin Pierce: Martyr for the Union by Peter Wallner [January 2011]
- 15. President James Buchanan by Philip S. Klein [June 2011]
- 16. Lincoln by David Herbert Donald [June 2011]
- 17. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy by David O. Stewart [November 2011]
- 18. Grant by Jean Edward Smith [February 2012]
- 19. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President by Ari Hoogenboom [November 2012]
- 20. The Garfield Orbit by Margaret Leech [December 2012]
- 21. Gentleman Boss: The life Chester Alan Arthur by Thomas Reeves [December 2012]
- 22 & 24. An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers [December 2012]
- 23. Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman by Harry J. Sievers [January 2013]
- 25. In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech [April 2013]
- 26. Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris [Summer 2013/Summer 2014]]
- 27. William Howard Taft by Henry F. Pringle [September 2014]
- 28. Wilson by A. Scott Berg [November 2014]
- 29. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell [April 2015/January 2016]
- 30. Coolidge: An American Enigma by Robert Sobel [March 2016]
- 31. Herbert Hoover by Glen Jeansonne (January 2020)
- 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 33. Harry S. Truman by David McCullough
- 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith
- 35. John F. Kennedy
- 36. Lyndon B. Johnson
- 37. Richard Nixon
- 38. Gerald Ford
- 39. Jimmy Carter
- 40. Ronald Reagan
- 41. George H.W. Bush
- 42. Bill Clinton
- 43. George W. Bush
- 44. Barack Obama
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