Amity Shlaes’

Do you love Politico? Sure, we all do. And one of the best ways to read the paper is to read TWI a few weeks earlier. For example, if you were reading TWI 10 weeks ago, you learned that Republicans on the Hill were treating “The Forgotten Man,” the revisionist history of the Great Depression [...]

The notorious Amity Shlaes, the Bloomberg scribe  who drives liberals around the bend with her thinly sourced argument that the New Deal was a failure, has come out boldly in favor of at least one form government stimulus spending. In a jaunty column today, “Sin City on the Potomac Wounds Nevada’s Bordellos,” Shlaes faults President Obama [...]

Jonathan Chait has a good, long review of three books about the New Deal that can be read next to my story last month on the influence of Amity Shlaes and her revisionist history, “The Forgotten Man,” among Republicans.
At one point in her book, in fact, Shlaes actually concedes that Roosevelt’s Keynesian experiment succeeded when [...]

Conservative writer Amity Shlaes’ take on the Great Depression is fast becoming the most influential book of the decade.