The “Roaring ‘20s” focused on profit and pleasure, overlooking the rise to power of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini ...

In 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in after President William G. Harding died in office. Coolidge inherited many of Harding’s scandals, which he was able to handle with considerable ...

Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the ... provided a parallel with the sudden death of his predecessor, Warren G. Harding, who died in a San Francisco hotel while his wife was reading ...

Coolidge was a plain-speaking New Englander and a welcome relief from the scandal-ridden Harding administration ... programs regardless of their purpose. Calvin Coolidge was not a forceful ...