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Back to EpisodesProfessional class liberals with Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer
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References and suggested readings:
- Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer, eds. 2025. Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s. University of Chicago Press.
- Brent Cebul. 2026. Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams, eds. 2019. Shaped by The State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press.
- Lily Geismer. 2022. Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. PublicAffairs.
- Lily Geismer. 2017. Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. Princeton University Press.
- Dylan Gottlieb. 2026. Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. Harvard University Press.
- Molly Crabapple. 2026. Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. One World.
- Follow Lily on Twitter and Brent on Bluesky
- Lily and Brent’s new book series, America Unsettled: Political History for What Comes Next at the University of Chicago Press
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