Search bar at the top of the page. It is great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers. Amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinguished career she has brought her wideranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of her countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. She has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist for Financial Times and bloomberg news, she has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity serves as a president ial scholar for kings college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation, and in a big coup for us at michigan chairs the whole Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute high outcries. An award she herself has won. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remembe
Our countries most original and insightful figures amity shlaes perk over the course of her distinguished career she has brought her wideranging intelligence and storytelling with those cultural institutions because she has served as a member of the editorial board, columnist bloomberg news. And now in addition to her book writing the president ial scholar for cake college and chairs the board of the coolidge president ial foundation and chairs the Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute. Her great work a Great Society is a stunning achievement a few decades have them printed on the popular many remember the sixties for their turbulent moments the assassination of the kennedys and mlk junior the march on washington and antiwar protest. Neil armstrong on the moon. But her focus is not the drama playing out on Television Screens across the country as the failure of washington to control these events and direct the show. Generation politicians came to realize the hierarchical high
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And cultural institutions. She has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist for Financial Times and bloomberg news, she has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity serves as a president ial scholar for kings college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation, and in a big coup for us at michigan chairs the whole Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute high outcries. An award she herself has won. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martin Luther king jr. The march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys focus is not the job that played across the screens on the country abindeed a generation of politicians came to realize that the centrali