Repeating the Mistakes of The Great Society, with Amity Shlaes
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Historian Amity Shlaes joins us for a new look at the origins and aftermath of LBJ's Great Society \\u2013 the massive federal poverty-reduction programs of the 1960's. The debates in that era were the same debates today: socialism vs capitalism, public-sector vs private-sector, victimhood vs self-empowerment. And the cost of these programs led to devastating outcomes which are still unfolding to this day.
Amity Shlaes\\u2019 most recent book is Great Society: A New History. She is the author of four\\xa0New York Times\\xa0bestsellers:\\xa0The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression,\\xa0The Forgotten Man/Graphic,\\xa0Coolidge, and\\xa0The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy.\\xa0Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Book Prize, and serves as a scholar at the King's College. A former member of the\\xa0Wall Street Journal's\\xa0editorial board, Miss Shlaes published a weekly syndicated column for more than a decade, appearing first in the\\xa0Financial Times, then in\\xa0Bloomberg. Follow her on Twitter at @AmityShlaes.
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