The Yankee Institute Presents Lunch with Amity Shlaes Author of Coolidge Stamford Sheraton | 700 East Main Street, Stamford, CT 06901 Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Lunch 11:30 a.m. Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: he left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited.Coolidge gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today.Lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m. Lunch tickets are $30 per person and include free parking. Lunch and book tickets are $55 per person and include free parking.**Please note: the Stamford Sheraton is at 700 East Main Street, Stamford - it was previously on Summer Street. Use the address above for directions and maps.** Click here for directions. All questions should be directed to Jessica at (860) 282-0722 or jessica@yankeeinstitute.org. About Amity Amity Shlaes has been a syndicated columnist for more than a decade. She directs the economic project at the Bush Center, the Four Percent Growth Project. For the past five years, Amity has taught about the economics of the 1930s at New York University/Stern. Until 2000, she was member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, specializing in economics. In the early 1990s, she served as the Journal's op-ed editor. Prior to that, she followed the collapse of communism for the Wall Street Journal/Europe. Over the years, she has published in the National Review, Forbes, the New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and the American Spectator. She has also authored The Forgotten Man, The Greedy Hand, Germany: The Empire Within, and was a co-author of Turning Intellect To Influence. Visit EventBrite.com for pricing.