In 1939, the editors of Fortune planned a special issue of the magazine on New York City. They tasked James Agee—who had recently filed another Fortune assignment, which would culminate in the ...

Benjamin Holtzman
Benjamin Holtzman is a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. His book, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.