Amity shlaes depicts calvin coolidge as a paragon of a president. Amity shlaes, author of the forgotten man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of americas thirtieth president, calvin coolidge. The original forgotten man was the creation of the 19thcentury yale economist william graham. The author did an excellent job researching coolidge and the. Its difficult today to imagine how america survived the great depression. In the 1960s, socialism was also popular, as was its compromise, social democracy.
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Shlaes writes about politics and economics from a classical liberal perspective. Today the idea of social democracy is popular in our country. But coolidge historian and biographer amity shlaes makes the case for libertarians to view silent cal favorably, as someone who deeply and instinctively distrusted grandiose government. Former fed chairman alan greenspan has called the book accurate history that reads like a novel. A solid book on a biographical topic that is often overlooked, the life and times of calvin coolidge. Bloomberg correspondent and author amity shlaes talked about her biography of the 30th president of the united states, coolidge, in which she traces the life of calvin coolidge from his early days. Shlaes is a former editor at the wall street journal and a former columnist for the financial times and bloomberg magazine. Maybe i was biased by his little stern, lipless face but he just never struck me as being all that likable. Coolidge calvin coolidge never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the great depression. From amity shlaes, author of the forgotten man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of americas thirtieth president, calvin coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. Amity shlaes is the author of four new york times bestsellers, the forgotten man.
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