Signed book: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses by Calvin Coolidge. First edition. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 420 pages. Signed and inscribed on an opening page in fountain pen, "To Rev. William E. Barton, with best wishes, Calvin Coolidge." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/VG, with scattered light staining and a few small edge tears and losses to jacket.
William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) was an American Congregational minister, author, teacher and lecturer. Throughout his career as a clergyman Barton continued to write voluminously-boys' stories, novels, sermons, articles, humor, history-and conducted exhaustive research on Abraham Lincoln, culminating in six books on Lincoln including a respected biography; his extensive collection of research material relating to Lincoln is now held by the University of Chicago.
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