Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, a foundation which is based at the birthplace of the thirtieth president in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, with an office in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. Shlaes’s biography provides a window onto an unfairly tarnished period. Amity Shlaes compared the economic debates of the 1960s to those that are happening today.Sponsor: Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Amity Shlaes was formerly a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. The review notes the economic state of the country before and after President Coolidge and concludes, ' Ms. Tracy is sitting by the phone in Plymouth Notch awaiting your call. For more information, please contact Coolidge Ambassador Tracy Messer. The 30th president can be remembered as much for what he did not do than for what he did – demonstated in Coolidge's own famous words: 'It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones'. Information about hotel block availability is forthcoming.

The Economist review, and Shlaes' biography, examines not only the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, but his upbringing and the philosophy that guided 'the great refrainer'. During Coolidge’s tenure American debt fell by one-third, the tax rate by half and unemployment collapsed.' However, if they are brave enough to read on they will also discover a presidency of remarkable achievement that has received too little attention.

'American readers who believe intervention to be a good thing are likely to blanch at a controversial new biography of Coolidge by Amity Shlaes, an American columnist and historian of the Depression. 'Calvin Coolidge and The Great Depression: When less led to more' in The Economist reviews the new biography Coolidge by 4% Growth Project Director Amity Shlaes.

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