Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“mark santow”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mark santow”
Skip side bar filters
  • Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race

    Community Organizing in the Postwar City

    by Mark Santow ...
    A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race.Saul Alinsky is the most famous—even infamous—community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations, which used the power of a neighborhood’s residents to define and fight for their own interests. Across a long and controversial career spanning ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • A Consumers' Republic

    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Messengers of the Right

    Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics

    by Nicole Hemmer ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of the little-known first generation.Beginning in the late 1940s, activists working ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Next Shift

    The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

    Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the C. L. R. James AwardA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the YearMen in hardhats were once the heart of America’s working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future?Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • African American Urban History since World War II

    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject.The first of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Don't Blame Us

    Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

    by Lily Geismer ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Public Citizens

    The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

    by Paul Sabin ...
    **“Crisp, clear, eloquent.” –Kim Phillips-Fein, New RepublicAn “elegantly argued and meticulously documented” (Timothy Noah, New York Times Book Review) account of the postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society.**In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Saving America's Cities

    Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

    "An incisive treatment of the entire urban-planning world in America in the last half of the 20th century" —Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York TimesIn twenty-first century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Not Even Past

    Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's AmericaBarack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama ... Read more

    $17.99 USD