Did The New Deal Prolong The Depression? with Amity Shlaes

Join us for Objectively Speaking with Amity Shlaes on Wednesday, August 5 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET.

Did the New Deal Prolong the Depression?

That's the question at the heart of our conversation with Amity Shlaes, chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. Shlaes will discuss the Foundation's new graphic novel adaptation of The Forgotten Man, her landmark history that challenged the conventional narrative of the New Deal as an unambiguous triumph. More importantly, she'll dig into her latest book, New Deal Rebels: An Anthology of Critics of the New Deal, which gathers the voices of economists, journalists, and businessmen who warned—in real time—that FDR's policies were deepening and extending the very crisis they claimed to solve.

Shlaes is one of America's foremost historians of the New Deal era. In addition to The Forgotten Man, a #1 New York Times bestseller also adapted as a graphic novel, she is the author of Coolidge, Great Society, and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It. Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, and LinkedIn. 

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