Lizabeth Cohen

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Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Distinguished Service Professor in the History Department of Harvard University. She is the author of Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990); A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003); and Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (2019). She is currently working with co-author Herrick Chapman on a comparative study of deindustrialization in the United States and France, two Western democracies that were affected by similar economic pressures but experienced them with different cultural inclinations and governance structures.