Puritan in Babylon

This book, which was first published in 1938, began as a biography of Calvin Coolidge, but author William Allen White found early in his task that he was writing the story of the growth and rise of economic America from the seventies until the crash of the Coolidge bull market in the autumn of 1929.

In this story of an era in American life, the figure of Calvin Coolidge, a curious reversion to an o...