Amity Shlaes
Amity 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 (HarperCollins, November 2019), The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (HarperCollins, June 2007), Coolidge (HarperCollins, February 2013), The Forgotten Man/Graphic (HarperCollins, February 2013), The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy (Random House, February 1999) and Germany: The Empire Within (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 1991). Miss Shlaes is winner of the Bradley, Frederic Bastiat and Hayek Book Prizes. She wrote a weekly column for more than a decade, first for the Financial Times and then Bloomberg. Before that, she served on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. Miss Shlaes is an advisor to the C-Span Presidential poll, and chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, which gives the prestigious Coolidge Scholarship and leads a youth debate program based on the values of Calvin Coolidge. She recently co-edited, with Matthew Denhart, a new edition of Coolidge’s autobiography. She is the recipient of the William F. Buckley Jr. Prize for Leadership in Political Thought and writes National Review Capital Matters’ “The Forgotten Book,” a fortnightly column about older, forgotten books, along with new books that aren’t getting the attention they perhaps warrant. Her spouse of three decades, veteran journalist Seth Lipsky, is editor of The New York Sun. The Lipskys have four children.