book by Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes, who chronicled the history of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in The Forgotten Man, explains for National Review Online readers why the political fate of that famous economic program…
View in your browser. Caveat emptor. That’s a Latin expression for "Let the buyer beware," which could also be expressed as "We broke it; you bought it." And that sounds…
No, Forbes columnist Richard Miniter is not making the argument that our 44th president is a communist. Miniter is making the case that, like final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Barack…
It’s a shame we’ll have to wait until winter to read what Amity Shlaes has to say in book-length form about former President Calvin Coolidge. One hopes she can do…
In a TIME article about the relative wealth of American presidents and today’s crop of presidential aspirants, Richard Norton Smith makes the following reference: As in other periods of economic…
The gist of Zachary Karabell’s latest Bloomberg Businessweek column seems to be that Americans cannot rely on government alone to get the nation out of its economic doldrums: The government…
She’s no longer serving as a top economic adviser to President Obama, but Christina Romer is still sharing her thoughts about economic crisis with Newsweek. It’s unfortunate that readers familiar…
You might not expect today?s highest-profile advocates of limited government to agree with the man who gave us the New Deal. But Hillsdale College historian Paul Rahe makes the connection…
Among the books Tevi Troy lists in a new article for National Review Online are Amity Shlaes‘ The Forgotten Man and Arthur Brooks‘ The Battle.
“It’s too bad things aren’t a whole lot worse in America. Then people would be more eager to allow government to make massive changes.” Read Jon Meacham‘s latest editor’s column…
I just happen to be reading Amity Shlaes’ ‘The Forgotten Man’ just as she shows up over at Locker Room here and here. It’s downright eerie how Obama’s walking down…
Karen, Folks can follow this link for a transcript of Amity Shlaes’ Carolina Journal Radio interview on The Forgotten Man or click play below to watch her John Locke Foundation…