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 remember that decade for its most dr
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