The Real Calvin Coolidge was a series of booklets originally put out by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation from 1983 to 2005. Comprised of eighteen volumes, The Real Calvin Coolidge offered insights into the life of our thirtieth president, and featured a variety of articles written by historians, Plymouth locals, Coolidge family, and others who knew and were influenced by him. Book reviews were also a feature, and earlier issues even featured commentary by Grace Coolidge. These booklets have now been digitized and uploaded here in their entirety.
The Real Calvin Coolidge comment by Grace Coolidge
President Coolidge, Salesman by Alfred E. Smith
$3.25 A Word! by Richard H. Waldo
When Blame Was Praise by Andrew W. Mellon
His Silence and His Thrift by Bernard M. Baruch
$1,000,000,000 for Prohibition by Theodore Roosevelt
A Little Girl’s Sore Finger by Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow
Why He Did Not “Choose to Run” by Hubert Work
Nice Custom by Richard J. Rahar
A Depression Even More Depressing by Otis Skinner
The President and the Flowers by Roy O. West
The Real Calvin Coolidge comment by Grace Coolidge
His First Job by Henry P. Field
How to Escape a Lecture by Will Rogers
“I Want a Raise!” by Ernest Cady Perry
President and Prince Autograph a Bucket by Henry Ford
His Only Defeat by John J. Kennedy
Football “Medicine” by James F. Coupal, M.D.
The President Shouldn’t Know Too Much by Bruce Barton
In Defense of a “Foreign” Painter by Ercole Cartotto
He Saw Beyond Congress by Charles G. Dawes
“Things I Did Not Say” by Dwight F. Davis
When the President Wept by John T. Lambert
Calvin Coolidge and Vermont: Some Reflections by Victor R. Swenson
The Resurrection of Calvin Coolidge by J. R. Greene
Book Reviews
Coolidge and the Historians (1982) by Thomas B. Silver
The Carving of Mount Rushmore (1985) by Rex Alan Smith
Coolidge’s Boyhood by Ernest S. Kavanagh
Calvin Coolidge: The Twilight Years by Richard Norton Smith
Book Reviews
Return to These Hills (1986) by Jane Curtis, Will Curtis & Frank Lieberman
The Inspiration of the Declaration by Calvin Coolidge
Monumental History by Daniel J. Heisey
The Beeches by Daisy Mathias & Robert Nelson
Book Reviews
The President’s House by William Seale
Calvin Coolidge Meets Charles Edward Garman by John Almon Waterhouse
Birthplace of Grace Goodhue Coolidge by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
Yankees in the White House by Irving Bell
The Death and Funeral of Calvin Coolidge by Todd W. Van Beck
When “Silent Cal” Used Cocaine by Milton F. Heller, Jr.
Book Reviews
Calvin Coolidge & His Family: An Annotated Bibliography (1987) by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
Calvin Coolidge: A Biography in Picture Postcards (1987) by J.R. Greene
First Ladies (1987) by Betty Boyd Caroli
Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History (1988) by Paul F. Boller, Jr.
Play Hide – and – Seek with Silent Cal’s Inaugural Medal by Darrell C. Crain, M.D.
Pepper on Coolidge by Daniel J. Heisey
Calvin Coolidge by George Wharton Pepper
Kentucky Lives: Starling of the White House
Book Reviews
“Coolidge Country” Cookbook by Kathleen E. Donald & John Almon Waterhouse
Calvin Coolidge/Encyclopedia of Presidents Series (1988) by Zachary Kent
A President in a Two-Family House, Calvin Coolidge of Northampton by Allison Lockwood
All the Presidents Ladies – Anecdotes of the Women Behind the Men in the White House (1988) by Peter Hay
Homes of the Presidents (1987) by Bill Harris
A Democrat Views Coolidge by John Karol
The Calvin Coolidge Papers at the Library of Congress by John E. Haynes
The Real Calvin Coolidge reprinted from Good Housekeeping, May 1935
The Three Purgatories by Herbert Hoover w/ Mrs. Coolidge’s comments
Book Reviews
Grace and Cal by Gloria May Stoddard by Clifford A. Pease, Jr., M.D.
A Modern View of the Coolidge Image – Popular Images of American Presidents by J. R. Greene
Calvin Coolidge Speaks by Howard M. Packard
Championing the Negro by John G. Sargent – comments by Mrs. Coolidge
The Great Auto Fraud by John Coolidge – comments by Mrs. Coolidge
The Rejected War Memorial – comments by Mrs. Coolidge
Book Reviews
Harry S. Truman, Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman, by Daniel J. Heisey
Eliot Asinof, 1919: America’s Loss of Innocence – by J. R. Greene
Grace Coolidge and the Clarke School for the Deaf by Charles McPhail Anderson
Grace Goodhue Coolidge by Susan Webb
Grace Coolidge – The First Lady of Baseball by David Pietrusza
Book Reviews
Grace Goodhue Coolidge: An Autobiography by Lewis L. Gould
Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy by Hendrick Booraem V
“Actor Jim Cooke is Setting the Record Straight” by Tom Slayton
“Suzanne (Boone) Spends a Night at the White House” – oral history interview with Admiral Boone
Book Reviews
Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874 – 1958) by Daniel J. Kelley
Letters unearthed by Lawrence E. Wikander
Letters to President Calvin Coolidge from his Aunt Gratia Wilder of Plymouth, VT. Entitles “Aunt Grace Writes Her Nephew”
Correspondence from Calvin Coolidge’s Personal Files; “Absentee Landlord”
Book Reviews
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream by John Derbyshire
First Ladies: An Intimate Group portrait of White House Wives by Margaret Truman
Celebration of the 75th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge’s homestead inaugural.
Will Rogers and Calvin Coolidge by Lawrence Wikander
Dramatis Personae: Plymouth Notch, Vermont, Thursday-Friday, August 2-3, 1923 by Jim Cooke
The Second Oath by Lawrence Wikander
Book Reviews
America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of FDR by Sean Dennis Cashman
Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 by Michael E. Parrish
The Boones and the Coolidges by Milton Heller
Grace and Calvin’s Pets in the White House by David Pietrusza
Oratory in History by Calvin Coolidge
The Religion of Calvin Coolidge: From Rural Vermont to the White House by Dr. Donald E. Harpster
The Coolidges and Their Churches by Lawrence Wikander
Book Reviews
The American President by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr.
Calvin Coolidge’s Third Oath, Washington – March 4, 1925: The 75th Anniversary by Jerry L. Wallace
“Round Robbin” Letters of Grace Anna Goodhue in the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity by Fran DeSimone Becque
The Liberty Memorial building in Kansas City, by Jerry L. Wallace
Mimi Baird’s Trip to Kansas, by Cassie Horner