Thomas J. Sugrue is the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches twentieth-century American history. He is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (2010), and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008), a Main Selection of the History Book Club and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996), won numerous prizes, including the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History. He has published essays and reviews in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the London Review of Books, and the Nation. He is working on a history of real estate in modern America.