Amity Shlaes

American economic historian — author of The Forgotten Man (a revisionist history of the New Deal) and Coolidge (a rehabilitation of Calvin Coolidge) — the most prominent conservative economic historian of the Depression and Coolidge eras.

Creates the revisionist account of the New Deal as economically counterproductive — The Forgotten Man's argument (that FDR's interventions prolonged the Depression by creating uncertainty that prevented business investment) is the most widely read conservative economic history of the 1930s.