Desmond King (professor)

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2. Actively Seeking Work?: The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain, University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN   9780226436227

3. In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain, Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN   9780198296096

4. Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN   9780674000889

5. The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN   9780195306439

6. Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America, Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN   9781400839766

7. Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America, Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN   9781107032927

8. Fed Power: How Finance Wins, Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN   9780197573129


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Desmond King

FBA
Born1957 (age 6566)
Dublin, Ireland
Academic background
Education Trinity College Dublin (BA)
Northwestern University (MA, PhD)