Amity Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, based in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, the birthplace of the thirtieth US president, with an office in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC. The Coolidge Foundation is the sponsor of the popular Coolidge Scholarship, a full college scholarship for academic merit, and the Coolidge Senators program, which exposes gifted students the values of President Coolidge.

Her newest book is The Great Society: A New History (November 2019, Harper Collins). Shlaes is the author of five previous books, four of which are New York Times bestsellers: Germany: The Empire Within; The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy; The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression; Coolidge; and The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition. She was a syndicated columnist for ten years, first at the Financial Times, then Bloomberg.

Before that, she served as editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal. Over the decades she has published in periodicals, including the New Republic, the New Yorker, the Spectator (London), the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the National Review. For the past five years she has chaired the jury of the Hayek Prize, the Manhattan Institute’s book prize. She also serves as presidential scholar at the King’s College in New York.

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