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A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert HooverKatherine A.S. Sibley

The three presidents of the Republican era of 19211933Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hooverhave frequently been caricatured, defamed, or dismissed in popular history. This Companion provides a historiographical approach to these administrations and the country they governed. Top experts on this era provide 27 essays that fully demonstrate how scholars have addressed and debated the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of this period, and how historians have wrestled with the controversial figures and issues of this age. The text includes chapters on popular culture, technology, eugenics, nativism, and the biographical treatment of the presidents and first ladies of the era.

Katherine A.S. Sibley

Katherine A.S. Sibley is Professor of History at Saint Josephs University, USA. She is the author of four books, most recently First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (2009) and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (2004). Professor Sibley is also editing a forthcoming Companion on first ladies, and serves on the editorial board of American Communist History as well as on the Historical Advisory Committee for the US State Department.

Anyone interested in the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era will find this volume an indispensable resource. Impressively thorough, and panoramic

in scope, it is a model of historiographical scholarship.

George H. Nash, author of The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volumes 13

A well-edited volume of lively and informative essays about three oft-neglected Republican presidents. Highly recommended for

high-school and college libraries.

Lewis L. Gould, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin

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