Amity Shlaes Joins The King’s College as Presidential Scholar
Amity Shlaes, the widely-respected author and columnist, brings her expertise on matters of politics, history, and economics to The King’s College as a Presidential Scholar.
NEW YORK CITY – Amity Shlaes, the widely-respected author and columnist, brings her expertise on matters of politics, history, and economics to The King’s College as a Presidential Scholar.
Shlaes is author of four New York Times best sellers: The Forgotten Man, The Forgotten Man Graphic, Coolidge, and The Greedy Hand. She has served as a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and senior columnist at the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Forbes currently carries her column at the front of the book; she also writes in National Review. Shlaes is a winner of the Hayek and Bastiat Prizes and chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.
As a Presidential Scholar, Shlaes will teach one class each semester, beginning in the Spring 2015 semester with a special topics course on Calvin Coolidge, and supervise selected senior theses.
“King’s has a reputation across the nation for the quality of its students. I’m honored to teach them and to learn from them,” said Shlaes. “It will be an especial pleasure to engage them in the topic of my forthcoming book, The Silent Majority, on the 1960s.”
Shlaes’s experience and expertise are a strong complement to the core curriculum at King’s, which focuses on the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics.
“Amity Shlaes is one of the most respected historians in the field of political economy in our time,” noted Gregory Alan Thornbury, the president of The King’s College. “Her work, most notably The Forgotten Man and her biography of President Calvin Coolidge, are a perfect fit with the curriculum, faculty, and student body of The King’s College.”
“Her graphic novel adaptation of The Forgotten Man shows her keen interest in speaking in innovative ways to this generation,” Thornbury continued. “I could not be more honored and thrilled to now count her as a colleague.”
A magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, Shlaes is married to the editor Seth Lipsky, a columnist at the New York Post and teacher at Bard. The Lipskys have four children.