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Bookmark or Share- Amity Shlaes | AIERAmity Shlaes, one of America’s premier economic historians, is the author of six books, among them four New York Times bestsellers: Great Society: A New History, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Coolidge, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and Germany: The Empire Within.
- Amity - Shlaes.comAmity Shlaes. Amity Shlaes works on a variety of projects. In the past four years or so she has concentrated on economics. Before that, she wrote about Europe. Her first book, Germany; The Empire Within, was published in 1991. Her new bestseller, The Greedy Hand, is available in paperback and hardcover, and has its own site!
- New Deal Rebels: An Anthology of Critics of the New Deal: Shlaes, Amity ...Bestselling author Amity Shlaes gives voice to the sidelined New Deal critics. In their own words, but with contextualization from Shlaes, the critics lay out their arguments against the numerous New Deal programs.
- Amity Shlaes. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression ...Amity Shlaes, a Senior Fellow in Political Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, proposes a different view of government intervention in stemming the economic distress caused by the Great Depression than offered by historians who argue that the New Deal improved American life and saved capitalism. Shlaes uses a well-
- Great Society: A New History - amazon.comIn Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by “the Best and the Brightest” made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so ...
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