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<title><![CDATA[Amity Shlaes - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14727.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Amity Shlaes]]></description><category domain="14727">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Churchill and the Debt Battle That Helped U.S. Rise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/forgetting-denominator-mellon-churchill</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rest of us have long wondered why one of the greatest conservatives of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill, trashed another great, Calvin Coolidge.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Teach Young People To Argue Well]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/case-for-debate</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leftists'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have spooked conservatives into dumping cash into civics education. Private donors tell themselves that enough money'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'from themselves and, lately, from Washington'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'will produce a generation of William'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' F. Buckleys and Margaret Thatchers. Or even someone as thoughtful...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Merchant of the Revolution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/merchant-of-revolution-willing</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are two kinds of people in the world: people who break things, and people who put the pieces back together.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oil: Venezuela's Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/venezuela-oil</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' modern right-left battle is theater'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with consequences.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/1929-crash-sorkin</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in 1999, William'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' F. Buckley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jr.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' interviewed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the economist John Kenneth Galbraith on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Firing Line. The gents'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' topic was historic figures. Around twenty-four minutes in, Buckley got to President Franklin Roosevelt. Galbraith, then ninety, turned nostalgic.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Playground, Not a Fortress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/playground-not-fortress</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forgetting the Denominator]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/forgetting-denominator-mellon-churchill</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rest of us have long wondered why one of the greatest conservatives of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill, trashed another great, Calvin Coolidge.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard Does the Right Thing--Inadvertently]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/harvard-trump-academic-freedom</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All these decades the educational establishment left Hillsdale College by its lonesome to reject federal funds in exchange for institutional independence. A few other intrepid institutions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Grove City comes to mind'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'have rejected federal aid in the name of both intellectual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fast-Forwarding Tax Cuts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/fast-forwarding-tax-cuts</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans tell us they are close to finding the votes to pass a tax measure that extends the expiring 2017 tax cuts. The deal also includes breaks for products made in the United States, and a tax hike on carried interest. To which one can only say: let the bill be mostly cuts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harding, Coolidge and the Forerunner of DOGE]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/harding-coolidge-and-the-forerunner-of-doge-history-budget-spending-d781bcdc?st=LXnkWz</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can learn from the 1920s Budget Bureau.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['We Are Living in Lyndon Johnson's America']]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/living-in-lbj-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We are living in Lyndon Johnson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s America,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Califano notes. All too true, alas, and a warning of the cost of non-experiments.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Abuse of Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/abuse-of-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politics these days is the Duel of Crises. Each party competes to prove its crises the more urgent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the more worthy of outlays.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['I Do Not Choose To Run for President']]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/coolidge-do-not-choose-to-run</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection. Nearly a century earlier, another president, Calvin Coolidge, made a similar announcement.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Say Capitalism Like You Mean It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/say-capitalism-like-you-mean-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' top concern this election year is the economy, as CNN hosts pointed out when they opened the first presidential debate of the election season.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roofs, Not Ceilings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/roofs-not-ceilings</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is there such a thing as a perma-shortage? When it comes to affordable housing in the Bay Area, many conclude that the answer is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'yes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Rents are high, rentals are hard to find, and regulations slow the pace of fresh construction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Depression That Wasn't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/depression-that-wasnt</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politicians like to stage economic rescues, which is why President Joe Biden last year kept warning of recession, and why former president Donald Trump tells voters that the economy is running on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fumes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not Your Grandfather's Gilded Age]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/gilded-age</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, conservatives for some reason went along with the doctrine of Too Big to Fail. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been paying for it ever since.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Revision]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/forgotten-book/price-of-revision</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Time was, the merits of Universal Basic Income were up for debate. No longer.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1924: Another Kind of Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/10/1924_another_kind_of_election_150477.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s all over but the shouting.
That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how this year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election feels, and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s only February. The losers are Americans who must absorb the insults and slogans hurled from political veterans on the stage.
But voters need more than shout shows from old idols in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Curse of Bigness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/the-curse-of-bigness/?bypass_key=VlFZZURTbDVXRHpFYjFVTzlhL2ovUT09OjpLMHR1TW1WeE5FRlBOSEZsTkVkS1JHZzRWazB5VVQwOQ%3D%3D</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can't protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shaming Americans: Ken Burns Distorts Historical Record]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/ken-burns-documentary-distorts-the-historical-record</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ken Burns's The U.S. and the Holocaust distorts the historical record in service of a political message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden as the New FDR: It's the Same Old Bad Deal for Jobs]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/552354-biden-as-the-new-fdr-its-the-same-old-bad-deal-for-jobs</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An arbitrary national economic campaign from the top generates damaging uncertainty in the economy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No 'Dole' for America: How to Recover From Covid-19]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/499367-no-dole-for-america-how-to-recover-from-covid-19</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right policy can restore low unemployment as the new normal once the pandemic ends.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Proven Economic Path to Recovery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/covid-19-economic-recovery-free-market-policy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's past crises show that a free-market policy is the best way forward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Get the Stock Market Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/12/how_to_get_the_stock_market_back.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Election years make cowards of governments.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  How else can you explain the White House response to the challenge of markets in panic over the new coronavirus? The Trump administration has moved into a defensive crouch. Its best ideas seems to be to rail at the Federal Reserve, or to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Growth Is the Cure for Inequality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/growth-not-equality-15643.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American history shows that expanding the economy benefits everyone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Would You Rather See Trump Tax Return or Have Saturday Off?]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/nIJKlDYtel</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Make the economy roar like it did in the 1920s and the issue will go away.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defining 'Forgotten Man' Is Key to Trump's Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-23/defining-forgotten-man-is-key-to-trump-s-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's hope Goldman Sachs isn't part of the answer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Greatness of the Puzder Choice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/currentevents/2016/12/13/the-greatness-of-the-puzder-choice/#16f105e0205e</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A THUMB in the eye to the minimum-wage lobby is how most of the press depict the nomination by President-elect Donald Trump of Andrew Puzder to the post of Labor Secretary. But offering up a fast-food entrepreneur for the Labor post does more than offend a particular interest group. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's--and FDR's--&quot;Forgotten Man&quot;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Trump%E2%80%94and+FDR%E2%80%94%E2%80%98Forgotten+Man%E2%80%99&amp;tbm=nws</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Amity Shlaes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s forgotten man carried him to victory in 1932. Will it be the same in 2016?]]></description>
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