“The prime problem of our nation,” explained Teddy Roosevelt in his 1910 Osawatomie, Kansas, speech on economic nationalism, “is to get the right type of good citizenship.” It still is. Working ...

Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is the author of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010) and The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (2016). He holds the James G. Stahlman Chair of American history at Vanderbilt University.