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Selected Bibliography

Alchon, Guy. The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Bernays, Edward L. Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel Edward L. Bernays. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Booraem, Hendrik V. The Provincial: Calvin Coolidge and His World, 1885-1895. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1994.

Conference on Unemployment, Washington, D.C., 1921. Committee on Recent Economic Changes. Recent Economic Changes in the United States; Report of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes, of the President's Conference on Unemployment, Herbert Hoover, Chairman, Including the Reports of a Special Staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1929. (Portions of this study appear in digitized form in Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929.)

Coolidge, Calvin. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929.

Coolidge, Grace. Grace Coolidge: An Autobiography. Edited by Lawrence F. Wikander and Robert H. Ferrell. Worland, Wyo.: High Plains Publishing Co., 1992.

Ferrell, Robert H. The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. American Presidency Series. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988.

Hawley, Ellis W. The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order: A History of the American People and Their Institutions, 1917-1933. 2nd edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Hawley, Ellis W., ed. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1981.

Haynes, John Earl, ed. Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era : Essays on the History of the
1920s
. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1998.

Hounshell, David A. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. "From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture, 1880-1930." In The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980, edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

May, Lary. Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Reprint, Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1988.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover. 3 vols. to date. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983-.

Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Quint, Howard H., and Robert H. Ferrell, eds. The Talkative President: The Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964.

President's Research Committee on Social Trends. Recent Social Trends in the United States; Report of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends, with a Foreword by Herbert Hoover. 2 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1933. (Portions of this study appear in digitized form in Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929).

Rubin, Joan Shelley. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Smulyan, Susan. Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934.Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Trotter, Joe William, Jr., ed. The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

U.S. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976.

U.S. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. Index to the Calvin Coolidge Papers. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1965.

Warne, Colston E. The Consumer Movement: Lectures by Colston E. Warne. Edited by Richard L. D. Morse. Manhattan, Kans.: Family Economics Trust Press, 1993.


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