You all (mostly) know Larry Summers ( former US Treasury Secretary, Former Harvard President and now Harvard Professor ( why he wants to stay at Harvard after the grief he got, only he can explain ) ).
But who is Amity Shlaes ?
Here’s a brief bio....
Amity Shlaes writes a syndicated column for Bloomberg News. Ms. Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her many appearances on television and radio include commentary on public radio for Marketplace.
Shlaes graduated magna cum laude from Yale University. She previously wrote a column for the Financial Times for five years, for which she won the International Policy Network’s Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2002. Before that, she worked at the Wall Street Journal, where she was a member of the editorial board. She has also written for The New Yorker, The American Spectator, Commentary Magazine, Foreign Affairs, National Review, and The New Republic, among others. She is an ardent student and admirer of the work of Milton Friedman.
She was recently awarded the 2007 Deadline Club award for Opinion writing[3]. She was also recently awarded the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for her Bloomberg columns.
Her first book was Germany: The Empire Within (ISBN 0-224-02700-X), about Germany at the time of reunification. She followed it with The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It (ISBN 0-375-50132-0).
Her latest book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (ISBN 0-06-621170-0), about the Great Depression and the New Deal, was published by HarperCollins in June 2007. Many public figures provided blurbs for the dust jacket: Harold Evans, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, William Kristol, Paul Johnson, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, and Mark Helprin.
She is married to fellow journalist Seth Lipsky.
I have seen Amity Shales on tv.
damn is she smart and beautiful.