Our guest: Kimberly Phillips-Fein, professor of history at Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, & Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis & the Rise of Austerity Politics. #USIH
As capitalism shifted from a focus on heavy industry to finance, were urban crises like this overdetermined? And this is not even to mention deindustrialization, suburbanization, white flight, etc, the other developments that contributed to crises and neoliberal restructuring.
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Argument made by some New Yorkers that New York City bore the costs of the American South’s racism, not to mention poverty induced in part by American imperialism, seems really important—a really good argument that the nation should support cities like New York. Thoughts on this?
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Trump hangs over this history like a dark shadow. You dedicate 3 or so pages to his redevelopment of the Commodore Hotel when he was a young man, & the hundreds of millions of dollars the city gifted Trump in tax breaks over decades related to that single redevelopment project.
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When you began researching this project, it had to have been before Trump emerged as a serious presidential candidate. What was it like seeing his rise as you worked on this particular book?
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