Amity Shlaes

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Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man: Graphic Novel, Coolidge, and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy. Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and serves as Presidential Scholar at The King’s College in New York City.

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2020: The 1960s Redux?

09/11/2020 The Austrian Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes is chairman of the board of trustees of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, she is a classical liberal, and she knows economics. She much appreciates Mises’s emphasis on property...

Amity Shlaes on Silent Cal

04/27/2018 Amity Shlaes Jeff Deist

Historian Amity Shlaes makes the libertarian case for Calvin Coolidge.

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