Calvin Coolidge has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators. The most-rated is The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.
Duty of Government
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In this speech, Pres. Calvin Coolidge asserts that duty is collective as well as personal and that law must rest on the eternal foundations of righteousness. He argues that industry, thrift, and character cannot be conferred by act or resolve and that government cannot relieve from toil. He concludes by saying that America need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people, a faith that men desire to do right - that the government is founded upon a righteousness which will endure.
Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks
President Calvin Coolidge's Last Address
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John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872-January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth president of the United States (1923-1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston police strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the twenty-ninth vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative and as a man who said very little. This last public address was delivered at George Washington University on February 22, 1929.
Public Domain (P)2015 John Greenman
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
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Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past...to America’s 30th president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text that presidential historian Craig Fehrman calls “the forgotten classic of presidential writing”. To hear this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. The Coolidge who emerges in this audiobook is a model of character, principle, and humility - rare qualities in Washington, then as now. A man of great faith, Coolidge told Americans: “Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.” Although he emphasized economics, Coolidge insisted on the importance of “things of the spirit”. At the height of his popularity, he chose not to run again when his reelection was all but assured. In this autobiography, Coolidge explains his mindset: “It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man.” For all his modesty, Coolidge left an expansive legacy - one we would do well to study today. Shlaes and coeditor Matthew Denhart draw out the lessons from Coolidge’s life and career in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge’s text. This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge.
©1929 Calvin Coolidge; renewed1957 by Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Editorial matter for this edition © 2021 by the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation (P)2021 by Blackstone Publishing