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Lizabeth Cohen

Lizabeth Cohen
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University and the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Bancroft Prize; Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.


The Midcentury Battle to Save America’s Cities from Crisis

Lizabeth Cohen on the Poverty and Prosperity of the American City
October 8, 2019  By Lizabeth Cohen
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