A Puritan in Babylon : the story of Calvin Coolidge /
by William Allen White.
- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1939.
- xvi pages, 2 leaves, 460 p. : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm.
With hardcover
Cont.: The museum that was Vermont -- The museum piece -- Wherein the museum piece peers through his enclosing walls -- Our hero stages himself as a Cinderella in the academic ashes -- In which our hero takes his first faltering forward steps toward the big wide world -- His baptism of fire -- Our hero does the best day's work in his life -- Our hero meets a powerful patron -- Wherein again our hero creaks through his predestined role of Cinderella -- Herein we meet our fairy prince -- Our hero dances at the grand ball and meets one grand old duke -- And tries on the crystal slipper -- Fate begins to shift scenery for a new day -- Our hero's stage is set -- Enter the hero R.U.E. -- Our hero's unheroic chores -- He pussyfoots the path to glory -- He waits off stage for his cue -- Curtain for the big second act -- Then cuffing Cinderella, the stepsisters went upstairs to bed -- He stands before kings -- Tragedy approaches with her spotlight -- Our hero dwells in marble halls -- And sits in the seat of the mighty -- But recites some dull lines -- Cosmic scene shifters sweat at their work -- The big scene in act III -- Upon which our hero plays second fiddle -- And publicly stubs his toe -- The big bull pageant swings across the stage -- Being an intermezzo while only the stage hands work -- Our hero plays Sphinx -- And all the world wonders -- A series of plots, visions and illusions -- The queen in the parlor eating bread and honey -- A gaudy pageant moves gaily to its doom -- The clock in the tower struck twelve and all her fine clothes turned to rags -- The long day closes -- Twilight and evening bell -- And after that the dark -- The sadness of farewell.