Samuel Zipp, associate professor of American studies and urban studies at Brown University, is author of The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World (Belknap, 2020) and Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Oxford University Press, 2010). (Author photograph by Ilona Miko)
Samuel Zipp
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Writing on Public Books
Choosing Empire: America before and after World War II
Both America First nationalism and postwar liberalism refuse to face the challenges of the globalized world that America itself inaugurated.[none-for-homepage]
Urban Renewal and Its Discontents
Unless inequality and segregation are broken, wealthy white communities can always abandon everyone else.
