Amity Shlaes | Great Society: A New History

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 Edition, Coolidge, and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy. She chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Book Prize, and serves as a scholar at The King's College. A former member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, she published a weekly syndicated column for more than a decade, appearing first in the Financial Times, then in Bloomberg.