Amity Shlaes is an editor of a new edition of “The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge,” published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and is the author of six other books, including “Great Society: A New History.”
Presidents should avoid ‘great’ — for their own good and the nation’s.
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