Reading right now
Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, Part I
Just finished reading
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Christopher Bonastia, Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs
Thomas Geoghegan, Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life
George R.R. Martin, Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords
David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Thoughts on politics, cities and the state of American life, culture and economics, from the perspective of a pragmatic lefty historian. "Chants Democratic" comes from "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, the avatar of American Democracy.
About Me
- Mark Santow
- I am Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. I am also the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, in New Bedford MA. Author of "Social Security and the Middle Class Squeeze" (Praeger, 2005) and the forthcoming "Saul Alinsky the Dilemma of Race in the Post-War City" (University of Chicago Press), my teaching and scholarship focuses on American urban history, social policy, and politics. I am presently writing a book on home ownership in modern America, entitled "Castles Made of Sand? Home Ownership and the American Dream." I live in Providence RI, where I have served on the School Board since March 2015. All opinions posted here are my own.