Biographer Amity Shlaes discusses former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge’s success in promoting government “austerity” measures in the 1920s. Shlaes delivered these remarks Sept. 24, 2013, during a Duke University Hayek Lecture.
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.