Jefferson R. Cowie

Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman Chair in American history at Vanderbilt University. He is the award-winning author of The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. He is also coeditor of Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. He lives with his family in Ithaca, New York.