Amity Shlaes, Syndicated Columnist, Bloomberg, and Author
Thursday, April 17, 2014, Holiday Inn-University of Memphis, 6 pm
Amity Shlaes writes a syndicated column for Forbes, is Chairman of the Board of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, directs the 4% Growth project at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, and teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business in the MBA program. Shlaes is the author of three New York Times best-sellers, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books to read during a financial crisis), The Greedy Hand, and Coolidge, which debuted at number three on the Times nonfiction list and was a Times “Editor’s Choice”. Coolidge is a comprehensive biography and reassessment of President Calvin Coolidge (president from 1923 to 1929) whose style of management discipline can be applied to today’s fiscal crisis. Shlaes has written for a number of national publications, including Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member.
