Amity Shlaes's Blog

Amity Shlaes is the director of the George W. Bush Institute’s economic growth project, a columnist for Forbes, and is the author, most recently, of Coolidge (Harper), a comprehensive and eye-opening biography of America’s thirtieth president. Shlaes is the author of three previous books including the New York Times best-seller, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (HarperCollins), which was named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books to read during a financial crisis. Shlaes teaches economic history in the MBA program of the Stern School of Business at New York University.

A prolific writer, Shlaes has written for Bloomberg, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member, as well as for Forbes, The New Yorker, Fortune, National Review, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. She has made numerous television appearances, including News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The Daily Show, Glenn Beck, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, and Kudlow and Kramer and appears frequently on Bloomberg radio. Shlaes regularly contributes to Public Radio International’s Marketplace and is a trustee of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. Shlaes is chairman of the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Prize, an award she won in 2007 for The Forgotten Man.

Shlaes graduated magna cum laude from Yale 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. In 2002, Shlaes was named co-winner of the Frederic Bastiat Prize, an international prize for free-market journalism. In 2003, she served as the J.P. Morgan Fellow for economics and finance at the American Academy in Berlin. Shlaes has twice been a finalist for the Loeb Award, business journalism’s most prestigious prize. She lives with her family in New York.