Amity Shlaes 
Amity Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. A syndicated Forbes columnist, she is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Greedy Handand The Forgotten Man, of which there are more than 300,000 copies in print. Shlaes earlier served on the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. She chairs The Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Prize, the foremost prize for free market books, of which she is also a winner. She has also won the Bastiat Prize for journalism. Currently, Shlaes teaches economics of the 1930s at New York University Stern School of Business.
Category: Government, Politics
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Amity Shlaes joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why Calvin Coolidge's philosophy of thrift and saving would not be a successful message in the current political landscape, plus why small business owners would have voted for him.
Amity Shlaes joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three reasons why President Coolidge should be considered a great president, he reduced the size of government, lowered taxes and reduced regulations.
Amity Shlaes joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why Calvin Coolidge, America's 30th president, is perhaps our most underrated president because he actually decreased the size of government.
