On Feburary 9, 2015, Amity Shlaes delivered a talk at Trinity College entitled: Coolidge in 2016: How Coolidge Said "No" and How He Can Teach Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and
Hillary Clinton to say "No," Too”
Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers:
"Coolidge, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," "The Forgotten Man/Graphic Edition," a cartoon book, and "The Greedy Hand." "The Forgotten Man" has been called the finest history of the 1930's ever written. "Coolidge" was named by Economist Magazine and Alan Greenspan as one of the best books of the year 2013. A veteran journalist,
Shlaes writes for Forbes and National Review, and spent over ten years as a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Shlaes chairs the jury of the prestigious Hayek Prize, a $50,000 prize for free market journalism, and chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, which is an expanding national foundation honoring the American president known for his restraint in government and civility. Shlaes has also written for The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member, as well as for The New Yorker, Fortune, National Review, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. She has appeared on PBS’s News Hours with Jim Lehrer, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Fox
News’ Glenn Beck, ABC’s Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, CNBC’s Kudlow, contributes to Public Radio International’s Marketplace, and appears on Bloomberg radio. Shlaes graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and studied at the Free University in Berlin on a DAAD fellowship.
Yale named her to its "Who's Been Blue," list of most distinguished alumni. She lives with her family in New York.
