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# Kim Phillips-Fein

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## Pages

- [Home](https://kimphillipsfein.com/) - Kim Phillips-Fein is the Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal.
- [Country of Lords](https://kimphillipsfein.com/country-of-lords/) - Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America On Sale July 21, 2026 A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition―the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal. We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality,
- [Events](https://kimphillipsfein.com/new-events/) - Jul 16 2026, 6:30-8pm – CBH Talk | Country of Lords: Kim Phillips-Fein in Conversation with Steven Hahn, Bklyn Public Library July 24, 2026 – Politics and Prose at The Wharf, Washington, D.C.
- [News](https://kimphillipsfein.com/news/) - • 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 Articles & Interviews New York Times
- [Fear City](https://kimphillipsfein.com/books/fear-city/) - New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics On Sale Now An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world today When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink
- [Books](https://kimphillipsfein.com/books/)
- [Contact](https://kimphillipsfein.com/contact/) - Publicist: Kyle Radler kradler@wwnorton.com Literary Agent: Andrew Wylie awylie@wylieagency.com
- [Bio](https://kimphillipsfein.com/bio/) - Kim Phillips-Fein is the Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Metropolitan Books, 2017) and Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (W.W. Norton, 2009). Her essays have appeared in the Nation, the Atlantic, the Journal of American History and the Baffler,
- [Capital Gains](https://kimphillipsfein.com/books/capital-gains/) - Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America ORDER Recent events—the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, among others—have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field. The chapters
- [Invisible Hands](https://kimphillipsfein.com/books/invisible-hands/) - The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal ORDER “The riveting story of how economic conservatism became one of the leading strands in American political thought… Engaging history from a talented new scholarly voice.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Kim Phillips-Fein’s Invisible Hands… is essential reading on the history of contemporary American politics, and especially on the
- [What's Good for Business](https://kimphillipsfein.com/books/whats-good-for-business/) - Business and American Politics since World War II ORDER This volume showcases the most exciting new voices in the fields of business and political history. While the media frequently warns of the newfound power of business in the world of politics, the authors in this book demonstrate that business has mobilized to shape public policy

## Testimonials

- [](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/183/) - a Pulitzer Prize finalist for history
- [Galbraith](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/galbraith/) - “This revealing narrative of New York’s transformation from working-class social democracy to the glittering home of fancy finance reminds us that behind the mask of austerity there always lurks a bitter politics of class.”
- [Stiglitz](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/stiglitz/) - “New Yorkers pride themselves on being cosmopolitan, on welcoming immigrants, on being willing to spend money on education, healthcare, and infrastructure. Kim Philips-Fein convincingly explains why that caused problems for the city in the past and why now we need New York values more than ever.”
- [Sugrue](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/sugrue/) - "This is a history with huge implications for the remaking of American politics and economics in our time."
- [Frank](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/frank/) - "This is the story of how the gears were shifted and the age of liberalism put into reverse, told with all the engrossing details, all the forgotten characters, and a memorable style.”
- [Freeman](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/freeman/) - “Fear City provides the definitive account of the moment when New York City liberalism ran out of momentum and money, and the conservative reaction that has culminated in Donald Trump began.”
- [Klein](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/klein/) - "Fear City helps sheds much-needed light on a range of contemporary crises, from the starvation of public services amidst enormous private wealth to the rise of Donald Trump. Kim Phillips-Fein is a historian of the first order."
- [Grandin](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/34/) - “A tour de force...Fear City is essential reading to understand how finance capital, real estate speculation, austerity budgeting, and punitive policing first came together to create the toxic politics of today.”
- [Perlstein](https://kimphillipsfein.com/testimonials/perlstein/) - “Fair, thorough, incisive, and stylish, this is the best book to read not just on New York’s fiscal crisis of the 1970s, but about how bankers became our unacknowledged legislators ever since.”

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