Have Faith in Massachusetts by Calvin Coolidge Homepage with an encyclopedic knowledge of

with an encyclopedic knowledge of the people and practices of government

Featuring essays by:

Jennifer Coolidge Harville and Christopher Coolidge Jeter

Miss Shlaes

his rise from town lawmaker to governor of Massachusetts

Have Faith in Massachusetts by Calvin Coolidge Homepage with an encyclopedic knowledge ofThis is a book that changed history. In 1919, Calvin Coolidge was the newly elected governor of Massachusetts, little known outside his state. The next year Coolidge was elected vice president of the United States and just three years after that, he became president. What changed? Two things happened in rapid succession. In September 1919, as postwar tumult plagued the nation, Boston police officers broke their contract and walked off the job. Riots