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Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century by Brent Cebul ’03

October 13, 2023

Tags Alumni Book

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).
A history of public private growth and antipoverty partnerships since the New Deal, this book centers the perspectives and mobilization of local business elites — e.g., chambers of commerce and regional development organizations — to trace deep continuities and change between the New Deal, mid century liberalism, and neoliberal modes of governance. The author is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.