Kim Phillips-Fein is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. She teaches history at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and has written for the Nation, Dissent, the Baffler, the Atlantic, and the New York Times, among other publications.
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An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster-and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was pos... SEE MORE