Personal
Matters:
- Origins,
Education, Personal Character and Presidential Style
- Deaths
of Mother, Sister, Son and Father
- The Boston
Police Strike
- Grace
Coolidge
- Choosing
Not To Run
Presidential
Issues:
Big Three:
- Tax Cuts,
Prosperity, and (later) The Crash and Depression
- Farm Subsidies
(McNary-Haugenism)
- Allied
War Debts and German Reparations; Mexico, Nicaragua,China and
The Soviet Union; Economic and Cultural Expansion
Little
Three:
- Materialism,
Mass Culture, The Modern Consumer Society, Welfare Capitalism
and The Associative State
- Prohibition
- Racial
Harmony
Plus:
- Normalcy,
The Harding Presidency and The Harding Scandals
- Hoover
as Commerce Secretary and Presidential Candidate
"Things
of the Spirit" is a three-hour biographical film on the personal
and political life of Calvin Coolidge. It is episodic in structure,
with episodes ranging in length from less than a minute to over
ten minutes. The overall arrangement of its 32 episodes is chronological:
Prologue
Transition
Weaned
on a Pickle
The
Needs of Education
Massachusetts
Politics
The
Strike
The
Road to Normalcy
The
Limitations of the Law
I Thought
I Could Swing It
The
President
Campaign
1924
Tax
Cuts
The
Power and the Glory
Amazing
Grace
Our
First Talking President
Modern
Times
Toleration
and Liberalism
The
Business of America
The
Coolidge Prosperity
Crash
and Depression
Photo-Op
Farm
Subsidies
Your
Son, Calvin Coolidge
Welfare
Capitalism
I Do
Not Choose To Run
Commanders-in-Chief
Spreading
the American Dream
Our
Man in Havana
Saint
Calvin
The
Things That Are Unseen
Wonder
Boy
I Know
My Work Is Done
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