The Life of Edward J. Logue and the Rebuilding of America's Cities After WWII

Authors

Lizabeth Cohen, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Biography, Edward J. Logue, America, social history

Abstract

Let's cut right to the chase: what's a social historian like me doing writing a biography of a dead white man named Edward J. Logue? I've never written a biography before. My two previous books, Making a New Deal and A Consumers' Republic, have made contributions to twentieth-century United States history by giving agency to social groups often considered powerless, such as industrial workers, first-generation immigrants, rank-and-file supporters of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, African American consumers, new suburbanites, and female consumer activists. I have made my reputation as a twentieth-century U.S. historian by arguing that ordinary Americans have been underappreciated as orchestrators of social and political change in our nation, that men in powerful positions are hardly the only molders of American society. So, you might reasonably ask, who is Edward J. Logue and why am I devoting the next stage of my scholarly life to understanding him and his work? Let me start by giving you an overview of Ed Logue's life and career.

Recommended Citation

Cohen, Lizabeth (2006) "The Life of Edward J. Logue and the Rebuilding of America's Cities After WWII," The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 35: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol35/iss1/3