Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations and a syndicated columnist at Bloomberg.  She has written for the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member, as well as for the New Yorker, Fortune, National Review,The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. Shlaes is the author ofThe Greedy Hand, a national bestseller, and The Forgotten Man  A New History of the Great Depression, a #1 New York Times business bestseller.