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Amity Shlaes graduated from Yale University magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1982.

Shlaes writes a column for Forbes, and served as a nationally syndicated columnist for over a decade, first at the Financial Times, then at Bloomberg. Earlier, she worked at the Wall Street Journal, where she was a member of the editorial board. She is the author of "Coolidge," "The Forgotten Man," and "The Greedy Hand, all bestsellers. Her first book, "Germany" was about German reunification.

Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, situated at the birthplace of President Calvin Coolidge. Michael Pack of Manifold Productions is making a documentary film of her movie "Coolidge." Her new book is "Forgotten M ...more

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The Toll of Bureaucracy

For years one topic has preoccupied many of us: bureaucracy's cost. It's the kind of cost you feel when you go through security at the airport -- how exactly do you quantify that cost though?

In The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression our artist Paul Rivoche captures that cost painstakingly through the story of a collective and government-managed farm, Casa Grande.

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	Coolidge 3.80 avg rating — 7,392 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression 3.91 avg rating — 6,226 ratings — published 2007 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Society: A New History 4.06 avg rating — 822 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression - Graphic Edition by Amity Shlaes (Goodreads Author), Paul Rivoche (Illustrator), Chuck Dixon (Goodreads Author) (Adapter) 3.46 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It 4.05 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Have Faith in Massachusetts: The Remarkable Book that Introduced America to Calvin Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Denhart (Editor), James H. Douglas (Foreword) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I regard a good budget as among the noblest monuments of virtue.”
― Amity Shlaes, Coolidge

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“Who is the forgotten man...? I know him as intimately as my own undershirt. He is the fellow that is trying to get along without public relief... In the meantime the taxpayers go on supporting many that would not work if they had jobs.”
― Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

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“As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or in the better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X…. What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of…. He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays…. —WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, YALE UNIVERSITY, 1883”
― Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

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