• Country of Lords was an Independent Press Bestseller
• Fear City was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in History in 2018
• FEAR CITY won the 2025 Fiorello La Guardia Book Prize
• FEAR CITY was a top ten 2017 book for Publishers Weekly
• FEAR CITY was shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
Podcasts & Radio
- American Campus Podcast: Country of Lords by Kim Phillips-Fein
- Behind the News: The US Tradition of Inequality w/ Kim Phillips-Fein
- KPFA: The Long Struggle Against Equality
- This is Hell: The Long Fight Against Equality in the United States / Kim Phillips-Fein
- Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Kim Phillips-Fein
- The History of the History of the Right
- The Dig Radio: Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein
- The Dig Radio: Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein
- Love Is the Message: E04: ‘Fear City’ – Kim Phillips-Fein on the NYC Fiscal Crisis
- Who Makes Cents: Episode 34: Kim Phillips-Fein on the Fiscal Crisis and Austerity Politics in New York City
- WNYC Studios: Special Episode: Mayor Mamdani’s Lessons from LaGuardia
- WNYC: What Mayor Mamdani can learn from Fiorello La Guardia
- WNYC, Leonard Lopate Show: When New York City Almost Went Broke
- KALW/Your Call: From 1970s New York City to the nation, the rise of austerity politics
Video
Interviews and Coverage
- CNN: Some Americans don’t believe all people are created equal
- Dissent Magazine: Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City
- Gothamist: How Bankers & Technocrats Used The 1975 Fiscal Crisis To Permanently Reshape NYC
- The Intercept: “Fear City” explores how Donald Trump exploited the New York debt crisis to boost his own fortune
- In These Times: When the Bankers Took Manhattan: Austerity’s New York Roots
- The Soho Memory Project: New York, Our Fear City