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The Forgotten Man
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 12.99It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. In The... more...
The Forgotten Man
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99In The Forgotten Man , Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American... more...
Coolidge
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 27.99Amity 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... more...
The Greedy Hand
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 22.95The Greedy Hand is an illuminating examination of the culture of tax and a persuasive call for reform, written by one of the nation's leading policy makers, Amity Shlaes of The Wall Street Journal . The father of the modern American state was an obscure Macy's department store executive named Beardsley Ruml. During World War II, he devised... more...
It's Not as Bad as You Think
Wiley 2009; US$ 24.95An upbeat antidote to the gloom and doom forecasts of the financial future Just about everyone is worried about the economy and markets. And the fear is that they will stay down for a long time. But a few brave voices say that the gloom and doom forecasts are just too pessimistic. Reality is that entrepreneurs don't give up. History is pretty clear,... more...
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