Susan Grace Coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started
Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the s
Susan swain good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity shlaes actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the state of massachusetts, and then to vicepresident. So, one could never be prepared for a shock like the death of a presiden
At stanford, one of her areas of expertise is poster design, the late 19th and early 20th centuries natalia received her ph. D. In art history from university of southern california. She has worked as a curatorial assistant of collections exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in new york. Our second speaker is jean cannon, whos a Research Fellow and curator for north american collections at the Hoover Institution Library Archives before to hoover, jean was literary Collections Research associate at the harry ransom, where she cocurated the 2014 exhibition the world at war 1914 to 1918. She was also the curator of hoovers 2017 exhibit, weapon on the wall american political posters of world one. There will be a brief q a the end. Please use the chat any time during the presentation to submit your questions. Prior, you submit your questions. With that, were going to begin with the natalia lauricella. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for the kind introduction, dr. Wakin and thank you t
Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in new york. Our second speaker is jean cannon, whos a Research Fellow and curator for north american collections at the Hoover Institution Library Archives before to hoover, jean was literary Collections Research associate at the harry ransom, where she cocurated the 2014 exhibition the world at war 1914 to 1918. She was also the curator of hoovers 2017 exhibit, weapon on the wall american political posters of world one. There will be a brief q a the end. Please use the chat any time during the presentation to submit your questions. Prior, you submit your questions. With that, were going to begin with the natalia lauricella. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for the kind introduction, dr. Wakin and thank you to burt sameera hana and their colleagues at the hoover for organizing this event. Im going to share my screen with my slides from their emergence in the early modern period printed materials have circulated political, social and cultural m