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The Great Exception(Reprint)
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Jefferson Cowie, Gary Gerstle, Julian Zelizer, Linda Gordon, William Chafe
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17573-7, ISBN: 0-691-17573-X

"How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and cultureWhere does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the Unit ..."






Freedom’s Dominion(Reprint)
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2024 by Basic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-0512-1, ISBN: 1-5416-0512-8






Freedom's Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie
512 Pages, Published 2022 by Basic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7280-2, ISBN: 1-5416-7280-1

"A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America."






Capital Moves(Updated)
RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (with a New Epilogue)
by Jefferson R. Cowie
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by The New Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-659-3, ISBN: 1-56584-659-1






Stayin' Alive(1st Edition)
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
by Jefferson R. Cowie
Hardcover, 488 Pages, Published 2010 by The New Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-875-7, ISBN: 1-56584-875-6






Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg, Sharon Marcus, Caitlin Zaloom, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen, Alina Das, Lisa Wade, Steven Lukes, Michelle Jackson, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Richard Sennett, Pedro Noguera, Fred Turner, Craig Calhoun, Margaret Levi, Shamus Khan, Patrick Sharkey, Linda Gordon, Richard Shrum, Philip Gorski, Shapira Harel., Ashley Farmer, Michelle Wilde Anderson, Thomas J. Sugrue, Oona A. Hathaway, Douglas S. Massey, David B. Grusky, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Professor Jack Halberstam, Scott J. Shapiro, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Jefferson Cowie, William Julius Wilson, Gretchen Bakke, Gretchen Blake, Professor Of Lamont
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-19011-4, ISBN: 0-231-19011-5

"On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Am ..."






Capital Moves
RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
by Jefferson Cowie
288 Pages, Published 2019 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2356-8, ISBN: 1-5017-2356-1

"RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor Jefferson Cowie. , ed. Women, Work, and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul ... Palladino, Grace. Dreams of Dignity, Workers of Vision: A History of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Washington, D.C.: International ..."






Stayin’ Alive
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
by Jefferson R. Cowie
Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2012 by The New Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-707-7, ISBN: 1-59558-707-1






Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)
by Sharon Marcus, Caitlin Zaloom, Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen, Alina Das, Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Richard Sennett, Pedro Noguera, Fred Turner, Craig Calhoun, Margaret Levi, Shamus Khan, Patrick Sharkey, Linda Gordon, Richard Shrum, Philip Gorski, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Shapira Harel., Ashley Farmer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven Lukes, Michelle Jackson, David B. Grusky, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, Jefferson Cowie, William Julius Wilson, Gretchen Blake, Gretchen Bakke
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-19010-7, ISBN: 0-231-19010-7

"On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Am ..."






Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America
The Great Exception : The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
by Jefferson Cowie
Digital, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7441-5, ISBN: 1-4008-7441-6

"Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 (New York, 2008), explains the role of commercial culture, mass production, and welfare capitalism for the rise of the New Deal; for the best single essay on the power of corporate paternalism, see David Brody, “The Rise and Decline of Welfare Capitalism,” in Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle, 2nd ed. (New York, 1993) ..."






Stayin' Alive
by Jefferson Cowie
Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-282-76671-6, ISBN: 1-282-76671-6






America in the Seventies
by Beth L. Bailey, David Farber, Peter Braunstein, Christopher Capozzola, Jefferson Cowie, William Braebner, Timothy Moy, Eric Porter, Michael. Willard, Dave Farber
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2004 by Univ Pr Of Kansas
ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-1327-4, ISBN: 0-7006-1327-7

"Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history. This is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative efforts that would reshape American soc ..."






Beyond the Ruins(1st Edition)
The Meanings of Deindustrialization (Ilr Press Books)
by Jefferson R. Cowie, Joseph Heathcott, Barry Bluestone
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2003 by Ilr Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8871-9, ISBN: 0-8014-8871-0

"The immediate impact of deindustrialization—the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities—has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume, the authors seek to move discussion of America’s industrial decline beyond the immediate ramifications of plant shutdowns by placing it into a broader social, political, and economic context. Emphasizing a historical approach, the authors e ..."






Freedom’s Dominion
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie
496 Pages, Published 2022 by Basic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7281-9, ISBN: 1-5416-7281-X

"A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America."






The Great Exception(1st Edition)
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
by Jefferson R. Cowie, Nick Salvatore, Jefferson Gerstle, Julian Zelizer, Linda Gordon, William Chafe
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14380-4, ISBN: 0-691-14380-3






Capital Moves(1st Edition)
RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
by Jefferson R. Cowie
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3525-6, ISBN: 0-8014-3525-0






Stayin' Alive , Volume 2
by Jefferson R. Cowie
Paperback, 514 Pages, Published 2011 by Readhowyouwant
Formato Grande
ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-3225-5, ISBN: 1-4587-3225-8

"An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book - part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore - makes new sense of the '70s as a crucial and poorly understood transition ..."






Stayin' Alive , Volume 1(Large Print)
by Jefferson R. Cowie
Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 2011 by Readhowyouwant
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-0423-0, ISBN: 1-4596-0423-7

"An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book - part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore - makes new sense of the '70s as a crucial and poorly understood transition ..."






Long Walk Home
Reflections on Bruce Springsteen
by Jonathan D. Cohen, Natalie Adler, June Skinner Sawyers, Eric Alterman, Regina Barreca, Nancy Bishop, Dermot Bolger, Jefferson Cowie, Jim Cullen, Joel Dinerstein, Martyn Joseph, Deepa Iyer, Greil Marcus, Louis Masur, Paul Muldoon, Lauren Onkey, Richard Russo, Colleen Sheehy, Wesley Stace, Frank Stefanko, Irwin Streight, Wayne Swan, Elijah Wald, Daniel Wolff, Kenneth Womack, Peter Ames Carlin, Gillian G. Gaar, A. O. Scott, David L. Ulin, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 270 Pages, Published 2019 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-978805-26-2, ISBN: 1-978805-26-8

"Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music.   Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics l ..."






Stayin' Alive(Unabridged)
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Compact Disc)
by Jefferson R. Cowie, Tom Perkins
Audio, Published 2018 by Tantor Audio
Hörbuch, Cd, Ungekürzte Ausgabe
ISBN-13: 978-1-63015-378-6, ISBN: 1-63015-378-8



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