Amity Shlaes

 Amity Ruth Shlaes (born September 10, 1960) is an American author and columnist from New York, who writes about politics and economics.

Her first book was Germany: The Empire Within, 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 .

Her most recent national best-seller is The Forgotten Man: A New History of The Great Depression  devoted to the study of the Great Depression in the United States and the New Deal. This book advances a thesis that both Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt promoted economic policies that were counterproductive and prolonged The Great Depression, in part because of the uncertainty created by inconsistent policymaking. It was a New York TimesBestseller for 19 weeks