{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Mike Glass on the Surprisingly Precarious Postwar Suburbs","description":"Few historical tableaus are more iconic than the midcentury suburbs of Long Island. I can see it now: rows of identical houses, subsidized by federal spending, inhabited by white middle-class heteronormative families   2.3 children, attending well-funded schools. If there\u2019s a stereotypical image of the \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d this is it. But after reading Mike Glass\u2019 new book, Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America, I can promise you\u2019ll never think about the suburbs quite the same way. Glass reveals that the way we paid for those homes and those schools\u2014through debt financing on the capital markets\u2014left midcentury suburbs unstable, unequal, and racially segregated. Even in the so-called \u201cgolden age of capitalism,\u201d suburban life was more precarious than I\u2019d ever imagined. If you\u2019re ready to demolish all of the things you thought you knew about postwar suburbia, listen to today\u2019s episode with Mike Glass.    ","author_name":"Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/whomakescentspodcast.com","html":"