Abstract

Kim Phillips-Fein is a professor at New York University and author of the books, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal (2009) and Fear City (2017). She also wrote essays that have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, the Journal of American History, and The Baffler, among other publications. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (2017 – 2020). The papers in this collection are research materials used by Phillips-Fein to write her book, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. They include copies of scholarly articles, newspaper clippings, business newsletters, and union pamphlets. Most significant are handwritten research notes and early drafts of Invisible Hands.