Author

Kim Phillips-Fein

3 books, mostly history, for Tantor Audio and Tantor Media, 2009–2026

Kim Phillips-Fein is a historian and author whose writing examines American politics, political economy, labor, capitalism, and urban history. She is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (2009), Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (2017), and Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America (2026). Her essays have appeared in publications including The Nation, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The Baffler.