Amity Shlaes

Author, Presidential Scholar, The King's College

Amity Shlaes is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Coolidge, and, most recently, Great Society: A New History. She chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, a foundation based at the birthplace of the thirtieth president in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, with an office in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. The Coolidge Foundation sponsors the popular Coolidge Scholarship, a full college scholarship for academic merit, and the Coolidge Senators program, which exposes gifted students to the values of President Coolidge. Shlaes was a syndicated columnist for ten years, first at the Financial Times, then Bloomberg. Before that, she served as an editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal. She is Presidential Scholar at the King’s College in New York. For the past five years, Shlaes has chaired the jury of the Hayek Prize, the Manhattan Institute’s book prize. She also serves as a judge for ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Award. And she is editing an expanded and annotated edition of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, which ISI Books will publish in early 2021.