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Amity Shlaes

Biography

Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes is an American author and columnist from New York, who writes about politics and economics. She served as director of the 4% Growth Project, a key economic initiative of the George W. Bush Institute.

Shlaes married fellow journalist Seth Lipsky in 1998. They have 4 children.

Books by Amity Shlaes

Coolidge
by Amity Shlaes - Biography, History, Nonfiction

The primary concern in the United States today is that our economic future seems in jeopardy, and our old economic ideas are failing us. Yet when Americans look to the past they find few leaders who made the particular choices the country must make now. There was such a man: America's most underestimated president, Calvin Coolidge.