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Amity Shlaes Asks, “What Would Coolidge Do?”
Published 1 year, 11 months ago
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Guests: Paul Moreno, Amity Shlaes, & D.G. Hart
Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History and professor of history at Hillsdale College, about the life and legacy of groundbreaking baseball player Jackie Robinson on the anniversary of his birth. Amity Shlaes, chair of the Coolidge Foundation and author of Coolidge, explains president Calvin Coolidge's legacy and how he navigated challenges like ours today. And D.G. Hart, associate professor of history at Hillsdale College, continues a series on the work of H. L. Mencken. This time, he focuses on Mencken’s dedication to the principle of free speech.
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