![]() In her most recent book, Great Society: A New History, Shlaes looks at the intentions and results of Lyndon Johnson’s follow on to the New Deal, the Great Society. ![]() In Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Shlaes takes her own second look at government intervention under Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, and concludes that in many ways Hoover resembled the New Dealer Franklin Roosevelt. Her biography of Calvin Coolidge, a president who grew up in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, covers not only the life of the thirtieth president but also the events that shaped the man: the rise of progressivism and the tumultuous period after World War I. Author Amity Shlaes and former Governor Jim Douglas discuss the 1920’s, the New Deal, and the Great Society.Īmity Shlaes is a bestselling author who treats twentieth-century political and economic history. ![]()
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