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[Wilson] Margaret Axson Elliott,
MY AUNT LOUISA AND WOODROW WILSON. VG/VG--
Some chipping & corner tears to jacket. (Jacket in mylar). Outer page edges slightly dingy.
Laid-in review of book from NY Times Book Review, which has
darkened pages 244-45. Very slight amount of pencil annotation on two pages, which can be easily erased.
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944). 302 pp.
~~~ "Woodrow Wilson as seen through the eyes of his young sister-in-law. A sparkling account of life in a small
Southern town of the 90's and of a girlhood in Wilson's home in New Jersey."
~~~ Scarce in jacket.
$35.00
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[Coolidge] Peter Hannaford,
THE QUOTABLE CALVIN COOLIDGE: Sensible Words for a New Century.
. VG/VG. (Images from the Past, 2000). 183 pages.
~~~ President Calvin Coolidge has only recently begun to get the reappraisal he
deserves.
His written and spoken words are strikingly applicable to today. His
statements about radio and then-fledgling television - with appropriate word
changes - would do for our era of VCRs, satellites, and broadband
communications. We consider the effects of large political campaign
contributions and of globalization to be current issues, but Coolidge was there
first, as his quotations on these subjects show.
~~~ Coolidge believed in -- and practiced -- lean, direct, clear prose. It is
unadorned, thus giving it power. Unlike the poll-driven banalities and hyperbole
practiced by many latter-day politicians. Coolidge gives it to us straight.
~~~ That was how he lived his life. Calvin Coolidge displayed the very finest
qualities of state and national leadership, yet he was described simply and
appropriately, by one who knew him well, as "a good and kindly man."
$17.50
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