{"product_id":"how-states-shaped-postwar-america-nicholas-dagen-bloom-9780226498317","title":"How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power","description":"The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action--\u003ci\u003eHow States Shaped Postwar America \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the scope of this largely untold story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Dagen Bloom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022649831X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226498317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Nicholas Dagen Bloom","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946344153343,"sku":"9780226498317","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f6db7bba-6e28-4e60-ba98-7a76fa231064.jpg?v=1681512612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-states-shaped-postwar-america-nicholas-dagen-bloom-9780226498317","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}