Amity Shlaes, author of a New York Times best-selling biography of 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, contrasts Coolidge with predecessor Warren Harding. Shlaes offered these comments during a Sept. 23, 2013, John Locke Foundation Headliner speech. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.