Amity Shlaes

Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

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Chair of the board of trustees at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation; Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Amity Shlaes on KCRW

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