Hey, welcome to Current Eild, Grant's interest rate observer of the air.

I am Jim Grant, and with me as always is world traveler and sound engineer Eric Whitehead.

But I'm not alone with Eric.

To my right, as our special guest today, it was Amity Schlaz.

And Amity is a formidable lady. I mean, she is the author most

relevantly for this podcast of Great Society, A New History, Just Out, who was touted quite

accurately and discerningly by John Taylor in a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal.

Amity is the author of besides the Great Society of the fine biography of our 30th

present, a title of which is Coolidge. And also, I think, most, perhaps you know this one the best,

but certainly it is a wonderful book. In fact, it's a new history of the Great Depression,

and its title is Forgotten Man. Amity is a familiar byline to the

readers at one point at the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and a former member of the Wall Street

Journal editorial board, she teaches at King's College in Manhattan, is the chair of the Calvin

Koolidge Presidential Foundation and the chair of the Manhattan Institute's Hayak Book Prize and the mother of four and married to Seth Lipsky and furthermore a

neighbor of ours in Brooklyn so amity welcome thank you Jim this is a treat and I think I'm

not giving too much away amity would I say that, a unifying thread of this wonderful history of the great society

is a man named Ben Cartwright

and,

you know,

the patriarch of the family that settled in the bonanza.

Yes.

And so,

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