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Distinguished Lecture: Jefferson Cowie
September 4, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm MDT
| Jefferson Cowie’s work in social and political history focuses on how class, inequality, and labor shape American politics and culture. The Nation magazine described him as “one of our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience.”
His most recent book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2023. Freedom’s Dominion tells the dramatic tale of generations of local fights against the federal government that prop up a particular version of American freedom: the freedom to oppress others. Reviewers have called it “magisterial,” written with “eloquence and with brilliance,” and Cowie’s “most extraordinary book yet.” Cowie is the author of three other books: The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working of the Working Class, and Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor. More information about these books and other work can be found here. We hope to see you on September 4th at 4pm in the Agriculture Auditorium for a Distinguished Lecture by Jefferson Cowie. And please let us know if you would like a copy of Freedom’s Dominion! |