Central to daily life, neighborhood vitality… and legal controversies.
When was the last time you considered the American sidewalk?
Legal scholar Michael Pollack spins a vivid travelogue in his newest book, Sidewalk Nation: bit.ly/43iXrPF
Ever wonder how Wall St. got so powerful? Why your urban rent is so expensive? Or why so many young professionals are obsessed with fitness?
Come find out on my Reddit AMA on r/AskHistorians--I'll be there talking YUPPIES all morning.
Harvard University Press
Did those ambitious whippersnappers really ruin everything? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/y... @harvardpress.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social #booksky
NEW YORK: come assuage your Knicks angst with me.
Tonight at 7pm--Kim Phillips-Fein and I talk YUPPIES at
@bookculture.com on 112th.
Very honored that my book "Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry," is a shortlisted finalist for the @asanews.bsky.social Political Sociology Section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award! And it is currently 25% off on the @harvardpress.bsky.social website! See info below:
Dylan Gottlieb
Dylan Gottlieb
Just started reading #Curved Air by @kevinadavies.bsky.social published by @harvardpress.bsky.social about the quest to cure sickle cell disease using gene editing #CRISPR #SickleCellDisease and which I am reviewing for @science.org
Jason Jackson
Washington Independent Review of Books
Next book on deck.
You cannot serve both God and Mammon. You cannot serve both God and Capitalism. You must hate one and love the other. @harvardpress.bsky.social
#TheEnchantmentsOfMammon #EugeneMcCarraher #Capitalism
In this JHI Blog interview, Leslie James discusses her latest book, “The Moving Word,” and how it reframes the relationship between newspapers and decolonization in Anglophone West Africa and the Caribbean. @harvardpress.bsky.social
Today @dygottlieb.bsky.social joins us to discuss his new book Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquored New York, new from @harvardpress.bsky.social. Come check it out on @askhistorians.bsky.social!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
I started AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS with hopeful settlers breaking away from New Hampshire and ended the book with white separatists in the Pacific Northwest. @harvardpress.bsky.social
