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Reviewed work: Creating the new right ethnic in 1970s America: the intersection of anger and nostalgia. By Richard Moss. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2018). Reviewed work: Creating the new right ethnic in 1970s America: the intersection of anger and nostalgia. By Richard Moss. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017. Journal of American Ethnic History, 38(1), 112-114

Remaking the Rust Belt: the postindustrial transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2016 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2018). Remaking the Rust Belt: the postindustrial transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2016. History, 103(355), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12607

John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2019). John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973. Journal of Urban History, 45(3), 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218765465

Focusing on the collaboration between Mayor John Lindsay and business advocacy group the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), this article illustrates the utility of public and elite anxieties over street crime in legitimizing new, privatized mo... Read More about John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973.