Amity Shlaes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The author of the New York Times bestsellers The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a provocative and conversation-changing look at President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and how its failures reverberate to this day. In Great Society, Amity Shlaes argues that just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal overshadowed a generation of forgotten men, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society gave rise to a silent majority, a coterie of dispossessed citizens-made...
3) Coolidge
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge's improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After...
Author
Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes...
