Bestselling author of The Forgotten Man, Coolidge, and Great Society
Bio
Amity Shlaes is the New York Times bestselling author of Coolidge, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy, and Great Society: A New History. She is coeditor, along with Matthew Denhart, of ISI’s authorized, expanded, and annotated edition of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. She also serves as presidential scholar at the King’s College in New York City. Previously she was a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg.