This week on Uncommon Knowledge, a conversation with author and historian Amity Shlaes on her new book, Great Society: A New History.
Noone at the time seemed capable of recognizing the obvious: the unprecedented … This week on Uncommon Knowledge, a conversation with author and historian Amity Shlaes on her new book, Great Society: A New History. offers ... “The Great Society created more.” In a follow-up to her The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007), Shlaes writes that Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society reforms “seemed designed to finish the job” of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal government expansion and had similarly disastrous … Amity Shlaes, board chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, winner of the Hyek Prize, and best selling author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, discusses her new book Great Society: A New History and response she has received with Dan & Amy:

Amity Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, and is the author of six books, including four New York Times bestsellers. by Amity Shlaes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 19, 2019 Shlaes (Coolidge, 2013, etc.) The Bookman is pleased to speak with Amity Shlaes about her new book Great Society: A New History. Amity Shlaes’ newest book, Great Society: A New History is a sequel to her two studies of 1930s and 1920s, 2007’s The Forgotten Man, and 2013’s Coolidge.

Readers know Miss Shlaes’s … On its surface, the Great Society was a plan to reduce rural and urban poverty, but at its roots were the … Amity Shlaes talked about her book, Great Society: A New History of the 1960s in America, in which she compared the economic debates of the 1960s to those happening in present-day times. Begun by John F. Kennedy and completed by Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society was one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation ever enacted in American history. Shlaes lays out a powerful case that the devastation experienced in particular by African American communities, up through the present day, in cities like Detroit, St. Louis, and Baltimore is the unintended and perverse fruit of The Great Society, a tragic combination of arrogance married to a willful ignorance of human nature.
Her history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man (2007), has been translated into numerous languages. In Great Society: A New History (Harper), Amity Shlaes argues that Johnson's bold makeover of the government was a failure despite the good intentions of its architects and implementers.