Amity Shlaes

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Amity Shlaes (born ca. 1961) is an American columnist from New York, who writes about politics and economics. She is an advocate for free markets.

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[edit] Education and career

She writes a syndicated column for Bloomberg News. Ms. Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her many appearances on television and radio include commentary on public radio for Marketplace.

Shlaes graduated magna cum laude from Yale University. She previously wrote a column for the Financial Times for five years, for which she won the International Policy Network's Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2002.[1] Before that, she worked at the Wall Street Journal, where she was a member of the editorial board. She has also written for The New Yorker, The American Spectator, Commentary Magazine, Foreign Affairs, National Review, and The New Republic, among others. Her obituary of Milton Friedman appeared[2] in The New York Sun.

She was recently awarded the 2007 Deadline Club award for Opinion writing[3]. She was also recently awarded the Newswomen's Club of New York's Front Page Award for her Bloomberg columns [4].

[edit] Books

Her first book was Germany: The Empire Within (ISBN 0-224-02700-X), about Germany at the time of reunification. She followed it with The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It (ISBN 0-375-50132-0).

Her latest book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (ISBN 0-06-621170-0), about the Great Depression and the New Deal, was published by HarperCollins in June 2007. Many public figures provided blurbs for the dust jacket: Harold Evans, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, William Kristol, Paul Johnson, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, and Mark Helprin.[1][2]

Other reviews that have been published include those on:

Forbes [5] "Unforgettable", National Review Online [6] "the best", Powerline Blog[7], Slate Magazine [8], as well as in small papers such as the Tallahassee Democrat, which calls her book "evenhanded, brisk and original."

[edit] Personal

In 1988, Shlaes married fellow journalist Seth Lipsky, and they have children.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Shlaes, Amity (2007). The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, 1st edn, New York: HarperCollins, back cover. ISBN 0-06-621170-0. 
  2. ^ Shlaes, Amity (2007). The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, 1st edn, New York: HarperCollins, back cover. ISBN 0-06-621170-0. Retrieved on 2008-01-20.