Amity Shlaes, the author of a history of the Great Depression, thinks the comparison absurd.
Shlaes, in her lucid, informative, and entertaining way may not fully have succeeded in carving Coolidge onto Rushmore.
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Shlaes portrays him in this period as a man who was drawn to women livelier than he was.
Shlaes also tells the absorbing story of the fight between Wendell Willkie--the true hero of this book--and David Lilienthal.
Second, Shlaes focuses on key personalities instead of on chronicling the Depression, weaving the story around these fascinating figures.
The 1932-1936 recovery collapsed, leaving "a depression within a depression, " writes Shlaes.
Capital went "on strike, " as Amity Shlaes wrote in The Forgotten Man.
Shlaes, a columnist for Bloomberg View, is not attempting much subtlety herself.
In her magnificent (and prescient) book The Forgotten Man Amity Shlaes creates a useful metaphor that is easy to grasp and explains a lot.
Shlaes, a columnist for Bloomberg News and a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, looks at the Depression through pro-market eyes.
Shlaes has a chapter on the Schechter brothers, New York kosher chicken butchers who ran afoul of the NRA codes, were convicted and sentenced to jail.
Shlaes concludes with a plea for simplifying our tax structure.
Forbes recently published, on the web, an opinion piece by Amity Shlaes (a regular contributor to the magazine) that focused on some of the issues currently being debated about NPR.
Amity Shlaes' well-written, well-researched book substantiates that machinist's observation.
Shlaes seems engaged not so much in history as in leafletting, pushing her neglected subject back onto a platform that he departed in 1929, prematurely but also in the nick of time.
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