David J. Goldberg received his BA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic and Lawrence (Rutgers University Press, 1989) and Discontented America - The United States in the 1920s (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). He has also written numerous articles related to labor and immigration history. He is currently working on a new book dealing with Boston, baseball and American life in the mid-1950s. He teaches upper division courses on U.S. history in the 20th century, U.S. foreign policy and the history of immigration.