{"product_id":"sunbelt-capitalism-9780812223477","title":"Sunbelt Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In \u003ci\u003eSunbelt Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the city''s expansion and its impact on the nation. The dramatic growth of Phoenix speaks not only to the character and history of the Sunbelt but also to the evolution in American capitalism that sustained it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s, Barry Goldwater and other members of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce feared the influence of New Deal planners, small businessmen, and Arizona trade unionists. While Phoenix''s business elite detested liberal policies, they were not hostile to government action per se. Goldwater and his contemporaries instead experimented with statecraft now deemed neoliberal. They embraced politics, policy, and federal funding to fashion a favorable business climate, which relied on disenfranch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkably wide-ranging and masterful analysis of the political economy of the mid-twentieth-century United States.\" * Shane Hamilton, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With meticulous research, interregional comparisons, and stand-out prose, Shermer makes a convincing case for the centrality of the booster class to the conservative counterrevolution.\" * Bethany Moreton,\u003ci\u003e Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSunbelt Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, a local study of conservatism with sweeping ambitions, . . . has done the historiography a great service. In her telling, much of the Goldwater mythology is shed.\" * Robert Self, \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This richly documented and subtly argued book [is a] fresh perspective on modern U.S. politics.\" * William Link, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Elizabeth Tandy Shermer's brilliant study of Phoenix shows how a group of young businessmen closed the liberal window of opportunity and then engineered dynamic growth free of the restraints of the New Deal state. Shermer traces the modern conservative revival in America back to the economic conservatism of Barry Goldwater and his fellow businessmen, not just to the racial and anticommunist groups that coalesced around his 1964 campaign or to the social and cultural tensions of the 1970s. This is the best study of the creation of the Sunbelt that we have.\" * Anthony J. Badger, author of \u003ci\u003eFDR: The First Hundred Days\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Shermer's masterful guide to the political evolution of Phoenix is a classic work of urban and regional history. It is also guaranteed to generate a debate over her persuasive claim that the Arizona city, under the sway of Barry Goldwater's circle, gave birth to the economic formula we have come to know as neoliberalism. A remarkable achievement!\" * Andrew Ross, author of \u003ci\u003eBird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"With its focus on local business elites, this study helps us understand postwar conservatism in a new way. Through Shermer's eyes, we see that the conservative political project is not simply 'antistatist,' and that the real struggle is over what government will do, not whether or not there will be government. \u003ci\u003eSunbelt Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and compelling new book.\" * Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of \u003ci\u003eInvisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The history of Phoenix allows Shermer to explore, with real nuance, the relationship of business interests with the liberal state, the shifting politics of urban boosterism, and the synergies between antistatist businessmen and the military-industrial complex that made their fortunes. Shermer researches deeply like a hedgehog but ranges widely like a fox, and her arguments are strengthened by comparisons with places as diverse as Southern California, Nevada, Tennessee, and Georgia. Even Rustbelt historians have much to learn in these pages.\" * Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. DESERT\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Colonial Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Contested Recovery\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Business of War\u003cbr\u003e PART II. RECLAMATION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Right to Rule\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Grasstops Democracy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Forecasting the Business Climate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"Second War Between the States\"\u003cbr\u003e PART III. SPRAWL\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Industrial Phoenix\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Conspicuous Grasstops\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. \"A Frankenstein's Monster\"\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Whither Phoenix?\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405703717207,"sku":"9780812223477","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223477.jpg?v=1730493335","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sunbelt-capitalism-9780812223477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}