A review by curtispaulostler
Coolidge by Amity Shlaes

I could not finish this, barely got through the first few chapters. I picked it up without knowing the author, in hopes of learning more about "Silent Cal" and one of the presidents from my home state. But two things bothered me in as much as I read: 1) It is so obviously slanted toward a right wing agenda (I did not notice until after I had bought it, read some, and got frustrated with it that one of the recommendations on the jacket was from Paul Ryan), making some large assumptions about what was right and wrong with an obvious tone; and 2) it was not very well written. The narrative jumps back and forth chronologically, even within a paragraph, and many of the sentences are incoherent, even if they are grammatically correct. It was as if there was no content editor, just a spell-checker. One small example: any professional editor would know the difference between "further" and "farther" but those words are confused in this book.

I marked this as "read" only because I do not want it in my current or to read list. I will not give it a star rating, since I do not believe it is fair if I have not finished the book. I will keep it on hand for some reference of the time period, and if I ever do finish it, I may revisit the review and rating.