Thomas Sugrue

Thomas J. Sugrue, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis and, most recently, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North (forthcoming this fall from Random House).

Currently

  • Letters

    September 17, 2008 Subscribe

  • Orthogonian Visions

    August 13, 2008

    Historian Rick Perlstein explores the resentment and polarization sparked by the Nixon era's cultural and political strife.

  • Hearts and Minds

    April 24, 2008

    Is there more to racism in America than intolerance and immorality? Four books shed light.

2007

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    November 20, 2007 Subscribe

  • Shanker Blows Up the World

    October 25, 2007

    The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.

2006

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    September 13, 2006 Subscribe

  • The Geography of Fear

    February 9, 2006 Subscribe

    Three new books explore how an absence of regulation and active policies of racial exclusion have shaped America's arid suburbs.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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