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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle  · 14 Oct 2022  · 655pp  · 156,367 words

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order Advance Praise for The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order “Gary Gerstle offers a brilliant, engaging, and provocative first-draft history of the last half century, a period sorely in need of scrutiny. With characteristic big-think

those ideas can and should now be consigned to the past.” —Beverly Gage, Yale University “Just beneath the surface of our fractured and polarized polity, Gary Gerstle argues that there has been a Neoliberal Order under which both parties worked in the 1990s and early 2000s. Even as they bitterly disagreed, the

to a new era.” —Julian Zelizer, Princeton University The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order AMERICA AND THE WORLD IN THE FREE MARKET ERA Gary Gerstle Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by

certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Gary Gerstle 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any

-Publication Data Names: Gerstle, Gary, 1954– author. Title: The rise and fall of the neoliberal order : America and the world in the free market era / Gary Gerstle. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021056521 (print) | LCCN 2021056522 (ebook) | ISBN 9780197519646 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780197519660

and dysfunction reign. What comes next is the most important question the United States, and the world, now face. Notes Introduction 1.Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989). See also

Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor, “Introduction,” to Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor, eds., Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics and Society from the Great Depression to the

Great Recession (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 1–16; Gary Gerstle, “America’s Neoliberal Order,” in Gerstle, Lichtenstein, and O’Connor, eds., Beyond the New Deal Order, 257–278; Gary Gerstle, “The Rise and Fall (?) of the Neoliberal Order,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 28 (2018

–772. See also the roundtable responses to Novak: John Fabian Witt, “Law and War in American History,” American History Review 115 (June 2010), 768–778; Gary Gerstle, “A State Both Strong and Weak,” American Historical Review 115 (June 2010), 779–785; Julia Adams, “The Puzzle of the American State . . . and Its Historians

/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/abs/government-by-improvisation-towards-a-new-history-of-the-nineteenthcentury-american-state/80DAFA991E456F52C82B224E5D2B5B40, accessed September 6, 2021; Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015); Stephen Skowronek, Building a New

on the axiomatic. See, for example, Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), and my own earlier work, including Gary Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989). For a fuller list of citations

Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983); Steve Fraser, “The ‘Labor Question,’ ” in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 55–84; Thomas Ferguson, “Industrial Conflict and

, Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990). 10.Lichtenstein, State of the Union, 20–97; Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), chapter 7; Nelson Lichtenstein, The

, and John S. Lapinski, Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction (New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020). 2.Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), chapters 4–5. 3.Gerald Horne, Race War! White Supremacy

the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, “The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism,” in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 212–242; Simon Hall, Peace and Freedom

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market,” and Paul Sabin, “Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order,” both in Gary Gerstle, Alice O’Connor, and Nelson Lichtenstein, Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession (Philadelphia: University of

varied meanings of neoliberalism across time and (international) space, see also Angus Burgin’s superb essay, “The Neoliberal Turn.” Paper in author’s possession. 5.Gary Gerstle, “The Protean Character of American Liberalism,” American Historical Review 99 (October 1994), 1043–1073. 6.Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, https://www.archives.gov

, Britain, and Ireland (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789–1848 (New York: New American Library, 1962). 7.Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), chapter 1. 8.Adam Smith

Roosevelt, two prominent figures in American politics who would come to be associated with American progressivism, the forerunner of modern American liberalism. On Roosevelt, see Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), chapters 1–2. On Wilson, see

Gary Gerstle, “Race and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Woodrow Wilson,” in John Milton Cooper Jr., ed., Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace (

); Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021); Saul Dubow and Gary Gerstle, “Race, Ethnicity, and Nation,” in Eugenio F. Biagini and Gary Gerstle, eds., A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 149–170; Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires

York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (New York: Liveright, 2013); Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989); Gerstle, American Crucible, chapter 4; Eric Rauchway

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market,” and Paul Sabin, “Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order,” both in Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor, eds., Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession (Philadelphia: University

who established the Pew Foundation to shape political debate. See Michael Lind, “Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution Against the New Deal,” in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 250–285. See also Darren Dochuk, Anointed

with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (New York: Basic Books, 2019). 19.Steve Fraser, “‘The Labor Question,’” in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 55–84. 20.On Reagan’s pre

State University Press, 1996); Elizabeth Hinton, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (New York: Liveright, 2021); Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), chapter 9; Kevin M. Kruse

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), and Julian E. Zelizer, “The Unexpected Endurance of the New Deal Order: Liberalism in the Age of Reagan,” in Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor, Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession (Philadelphia: University of

Europe’s Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006); James T. Kloppenberg and John Gee, “Social and Economic Democracy,” in Eugenio F. Biagini and Gary Gerstle, eds., A Cultural History of Democracy: The Modern Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 81–106. 19.Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps, Radicals in America: The U

41st President, 1989–1993 (New York: Times Books and Henry Holt, 2007). 22.On the Bush family’s move to Texas and its consequences, see Gary Gerstle, “Minorities, Multiculturalism and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market,” and Paul Sabin, “Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order,” both in Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor, eds., Beyond the New Deal Order (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 186-203 and 168-185. See also

Neoliberalism: Social Movements and Resistance in America, 1982–2000” (PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2022). 96.On Clinton’s embrace of multiculturalism more generally, see Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), chapter 9. 97.Clinton regarded the 1993 Oslo Accords

and Wang, 2011).  See also Michael J. Strauss, The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2009), and Gary Gerstle and Desmond King, “Spaces of Exception in American History,” in Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, eds., States of Exception in American History (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020). 6.Carter Malkasian

, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-three-cheers-for-pluralism-over-separatism.html, accessed August 31, 2021. 39.Gary Gerstle, “Minorities, Multiculturalism, and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” in Julian Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton, NJ

Press, 2010); Fredrick Harris, The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Gary Gerstle, “The Age of Obama, 2000–2016,” in American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 375–426

“precariat,” see https://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/precariat.html, accessed December 15, 2021, and Standing, The Precariat. 25.See Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, “Introduction,” in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 1–26. 26.For

—A Timeline,” June 17, 2020, https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline, accessed August 17, 2021. 20.See Gary Gerstle, “Becoming Americans—U.S. Immigrant Integration,” Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security

, and International Law, 110th Congress, First Session, May 16, 2007, https://www.aila.org/File/Related/07072061b.pdf, accessed September 28, 2021; see also Gary Gerstle, “Minorities, Multiculturalism, and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton

, 2021, https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/02/trump-administration-quietly-spent-billions-in-hospital-funds-on-operation-warp-speed/, accessed August 30, 2021. 31.Gary Gerstle, “The New Federalism,” The Atlantic, May 6, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/new-federalism/611077/, accessed September 27, 2021. 32.As

); Nadia T. Urbinati, Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014); Helen Thompson, Disorder; see also Eugenio T. Biagini and Gary Gerstle, eds., A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). 50.He and the Democratic Party would have to pull off

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

New Deal and the Idea of the State.” In The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930‒1980, edited by Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, 85‒121. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Broodbank, Cyprian. 2013. The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to

. “The Alleged Transformation from Two-Field to Three-Field Systems in Medieval England.” Economic History Review 39, no. 4 (November): 526‒548. Fraser, Steve, and Gary Gerstle. 1989. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930‒1980. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Freeman, Joshua B. 2018. Behemoth: A History of

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Sugrue, Thomas J.

my mailbox right up until the last minute with photocopied newspaper clippings), Dana Barron, Peter Coclanis, Lizabeth Cohen, Gerald Gamm (and his Urban Politics students), Gary Gerstle, Jim Grossman, Ira Katznelson, Robin Kelley, and Robert Lieberman. Other sections of the book have benefited from the astute comments of Jo Ann Argersinger, David

decline, see Sugrue, “Structures of Urban Poverty,” 100–117; John Cumbler, A Social History of Economic Decline (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989); Gary Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism: A History of Labor in a Textile City, 1920–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 318–30; on the electrical industry, see

), 149–90; Ira Katznelson, “Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989), 185–211; Gary Mucciaroni, The Political Failure of Employment Policy, 1945–1982 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990

1940s,” International Labor and Working-Class History 44 (1993): 1–32. The piece should be read in conjunction with the critical responses to it by Gary Gerstle, Robert Korstad, Marshall Stevenson, and Judith Stein, ibid., 33–63. 23. Meier and Rudwick, Black Detroit, 3–33. 24. For an overview of wartime antidiscrimination

the centrality of the 1940s for the coalescence of the New Deal order and for the future of American social policy, see Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989), xix. 6. Robert B. Fairbanks, Making

the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era,” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989), Table 5.1, 145. 9. My generalization is based on a breakdown of workers in General Motors plants

(New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1989); Irwin Marcus, “The Deindustrialization of Homestead: A Case Study, 1959–1984,” Pennsylvania History 52 (1985) 162–82; Gary Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism: A History of Labor in a Textile City, 1920–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 320–28; Ronald Schatz, The Electrical Workers

wartime racial liberalism, see Philip Gleason, “Americans All: World War II and the Shaping of American Identity,” Review of Politics 43 (1981): 483–518; and Gary Gerstle, “The Working Class Goes to War,” Mid-America: An Historical Review 75 (October 1993): 303–22. Civil rights organizations and observers of race relations in

, Warm Hearth: Politics and the Family in Postwar America,” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988), 153–81. 42. “Demonstrations, 1945–1946,” 4. 43. National Association of Community Councils, “To Make a Long Story

; Ira Katznelson, “Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989), 185–211; Thomas F Jackson, “The State, the Movement, and the Urban Poor: The War on Poverty and

Abundance

by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson  · 18 Mar 2025  · 227pp  · 84,566 words

something very different. Perhaps a path out of the morass we’re in. A new political order. The term “political order” is the coinage of Gary Gerstle, an American historian and a professor at Cambridge University. Many historians focus on how Republicans and Democrats have fought and disagreed over the years. Gerstle

/outlook/the-dreams-and-dedication-behind-our-leap-to-the-moon/2019/07/11/6ae625f4-9456-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html. Conclusion: Toward Abundance 1. Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), Kindle, 153

/5-presidents-raised-taxes-most-140035413.html#:~:text=Harry%20Truman%2C%201945%2D1953&text=The%20Revenue%20Act%20of%201950,pay%20for%20the%20Korean%20War. 7. Gary Gerstle, interview with Derek Thompson. 8. Stefan Becket, “Read the Full VP Debate Transcript from the Walz-Vance Showdown,” October 2, 2024, https://www.cbsnews.com

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

by Edward Fishman  · 25 Feb 2025  · 884pp  · 221,861 words

Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), 115. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT career as a bond trader: Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 111–12. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT factories over motorists

Time for Truth: (McGraw-Hill: Reader’s Digest Press, 1978). See David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) and Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) for accounts of neoliberalism and its impact on America and the

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

by Bethany Moreton  · 15 May 2009  · 391pp  · 22,799 words

. Cobb, The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982); Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989); Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, Chain

Edsall, “The Changing Shape of Power: A Realignment in Public Policy,” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 269–93; Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working

. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, ed. Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 120. “Peace on Earth,” WMW, December 1972, 8. “Glowing Letters and Thank-You Notes,” WMW, May [copy II] 1975, 4

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

by Gabriel Winant  · 23 Mar 2021  · 563pp  · 136,190 words

the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era,” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 122–152; Steve Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University

the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956–1979,” in Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession, ed. Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 124–140; Johanna Fernández, The Young Lords: A Radical History (Chapel Hill: University

the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956–1979,” in Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession, ed. Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 124–140. See “Remarks of Vice-President Humphrey United States Steel Corporation National

The Cigarette: A Political History

by Sarah Milov  · 1 Oct 2019

example, does not devote a single essay to agricultural regulation. See The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). Indeed, farm regulations barely make an appearance in synthetic assessments of the New Deal’s legacy on business or

Brinkley, “The New Deal and the Idea of the State,” in The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980, Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 105–108. On the doctrine of growth in the immediate postwar period, see Collins, More, 17–39. 11. These

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back

by Marc J Dunkelman  · 17 Feb 2025  · 454pp  · 134,799 words

the Collapse of the New Deal Order, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market,” in Beyond the New Deal Order, ed. Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 170. 44. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1977

the Collapse of the New Deal Order, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market,” in Beyond the New Deal Order, ed. Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 168–185. 66. George Packer, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

the Collapse of the New Deal Order, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market,” in Beyond the New Deal Order, ed. Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O’Connor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). 78. Philip K. Howard and Geoff Kabaservice, “Can America Untangle Itself from Red

Born in Flames

by Bench Ansfield  · 15 Aug 2025  · 366pp  · 138,787 words

the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956–1979,” in Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession, ed. Gary Gerstle et al. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), 124–40; Ho, Liquidated; Louis Hyman, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Princeton, NJ

to Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021); Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017); Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022); Annelise Orleck

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 15 Jan 2019  · 918pp  · 257,605 words

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America)

by Louis Hyman  · 3 Jan 2011

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Aug 2020

Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

by Augustine Sedgewick  · 6 Apr 2020  · 668pp  · 159,523 words

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Mar 2009  · 1,037pp  · 294,916 words

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

by Joshua B. Freeman  · 27 Feb 2018  · 538pp  · 145,243 words

The Making of Global Capitalism

by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin  · 8 Oct 2012  · 823pp  · 206,070 words

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam  · 12 Oct 2020  · 678pp  · 160,676 words

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg  · 20 Jun 2016  · 709pp  · 191,147 words

Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

by Andrew L. Russell  · 27 Apr 2014  · 675pp  · 141,667 words

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism

by Anatol Lieven  · 3 May 2010

The Economic Weapon

by Nicholas Mulder  · 15 Mar 2021

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, From Ancient Athens to Our World

by James Miller  · 17 Sep 2018  · 370pp  · 99,312 words

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen  · 30 Sep 2019

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project

by Hans Kundnani  · 16 Aug 2023  · 198pp  · 54,815 words

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone  · 25 Mar 2025  · 512pp  · 153,059 words

Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz  · 8 Jul 2024  · 259pp  · 89,637 words

Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

by Michael Knox Beran  · 2 Aug 2021  · 800pp  · 240,175 words

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer  · 24 Sep 2018  · 443pp  · 125,510 words

Policing the Open Road

by Sarah A. Seo