The lake, the farmer and the dentist -- Creating a newspaper colony -- The genesis of the alliance -- Closing in on the deal -- The early colonies and the promotional articles -- The later colonies and the display ads -- The economic aftermath -- Hybrids and clones -- William Randolph Hearst --...

"The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United States have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise to become the largest, richest, and most...

"The three faces of risk" -- "Another day older and deeper in debt" -- "Locking down an American workforce" -- "Uncle Sam doesn't want you" -- "Making disaster pay" -- "Two gilded ages" -- "American labor and the great depression" -- "The age of acquiescence" -- "The limousine liberal's family...

"From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized...

"Men Is Cheap shows how the concepts of military and domestic necessity were connected in white northerners' minds and clarifies what they thought the war was fought over. In the process of winning the war, white northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by...

"In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Liberalism is not enough offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Focusing on the figures associated with 'Great...