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Bloom's book breaks new ground and makes a real contribution. It is a needed corrective to historians' neglect of state government and superbly illuminates the role of the states in metropolitan development. --Jon Teaford author of The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America Bloom provides a needed reminder of how significant state governments were to urban development and planning in the mid-twentieth century. . . . The moral of the many stories is that in today's political climate, urban Americans may again need to look to state governments. --Planning Bloom makes a forceful argument that scholars of urban history and planning miss important aspects of urban development if they ignore the role played by state governments. How States Shaped Postwar America aims to document that role. In clearly written and very readable prose, Bloom covers an impressive range of policy areas and offers succinct, cogent analysis of policy developments and the state's role within them. --Tracy Steffes author of School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940 Extensively researched, How States Shaped Postwar America leaps beyond the history of state and municipal politics to address state governance's role in urban issues in housing finance, public health, infrastructure, and education. Bloom provides a rich history of state governments' role in addressing urban challenges. The result is a major contribution to the understanding of state government and its impact on urban policy. --Susan M. Wachter The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Bloom's book breaks new ground and makes a real contribution. It is a needed corrective to historians' neglect of state government and superbly illuminates the role of the states in metropolitan development. --Jon Teaford author of The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America Bloom makes a forceful argument that scholars of urban history and planning miss important aspects of urban development if they ignore the role played by state governments. How States Shaped Postwar America aims to document that role. In clearly written and very readable prose, Bloom covers an impressive range of policy areas and offers succinct, cogent analysis of policy developments and the state's role within them. --Tracy Steffes author of School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940 Extensively researched, How States Shaped Postwar America leaps beyond the history of state and municipal politics to address state governance's role in urban issues in housing finance, public health, infrastructure, and education. Bloom provides a rich history of state governments' role in addressing urban challenges. The result is a major contribution to the understanding of state government and its impact on urban policy. --Susan M. Wachter The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Nicholas Dagen Bloom is associate professor of history at New York Institute of Technology.

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