Jefferson R. Cowie
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Jefferson R. Cowie

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Jefferson Cowie holds James G. Stahlman Chair in American history at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Princeton, 2016). He is also the author of Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (The New Press, 2010), which received the Francis Parkman Prize, the Merle Curti Award, and was a finalist for the Anthony Lukas Award for nonfiction, in addition to winning several other national prizes. He is also the author of Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (The New Press, 2001), which received the Philip Taft Prize for the Best Book in Labor History for 2000. He is also the co-editor of Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization (Cornell University Press). He lives with his family in Ithaca, New York. More at: www.jeffersoncowie.info
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