Books: Average Genius

CALVIN COOLIDGE—Claude M. Fuess —Little, Brown ($4.75).

"In trying to anticipate the verdict of history, we can be sure that Calvin Coolidge will not be remembered as a great constructive President, like Washington and Jackson and Lincoln and Wilson. Nor does he belong with the weaklings, with Pierce and Buchanan and Grant and Harding. His place is with John Quincy Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland—with strong Presidents who had a few great issues to settle but whose integrity and sterling character have made them stand out more for what they were than for what they did." Such, this week,...

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