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Joshua B. Freeman

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Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

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Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  He received his B.A. from Harvard University and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.  His previous books include American Empire, 1945-2000: The Rise of a Global Power; the Democratic Revolution at Home (2012) and Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (2000).  Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (2018) has won praise from The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, The Economist, and The Guardian.