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Steven Attewell was an author, policy historian, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy at CUNY's Murphy Institute for Labor Studies.[1] He was best known for his blog Race for the Iron Throne,[2][3] which covered the historical and political side of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, for which he published several books on the series.[4][5][6]

Career

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Attewell started off as an undergraduate history major at Columbia and then went into the history PhD program at UC Santa Barbara,[7] where he wrote his dissertation Public At Work: Direct Job Creation Policy From The New Deal to the Rise of Reagan.[8] This became his book People Must Live by Work, which traces "the rise and fall of direct job creation by the government as federal economic and social policy."[9] People Must Live by Work has been cited by other works, such as Eric Rauchway's Why the New Deal Matters[10] and Kate Aronoff's Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back.[11]

From 2009 to 2013, he worked as a freelance policy analyst for the New America Foundation.[12] He received the Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship from the New York Historical Society in 2014 for his project "The Tammany Tiger in an Era of Mass Unemployment."[13] Starting in 2014, he began working as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY's Murphy Institute for Labor Studies,[14] where he taught Urban Studies.[1]

In March 2012, he began writing the blog Race for the Iron Throne, which was dedicated to doing a chapter-by-chapter analysis of A Song of Ice and Fire and an episode-by-episode analysis of Game of Thrones.[15] He also wrote frequent guest essays for the blog Tower of the Hand[16][17] and for the blogs Lawyers, Guns & Money[18] and Graphic Policy, where he wrote a series of articles titled "The People's History of the Marvel Universe"[19][20][21] and co-hosted an episode-by-episode podcast about The Venture Bros.[22] He also co-founded The Realignment Project, a group blog dedicated to discussing "current political events, political strategy, ideology, and history."[23]

In 2014, he wrote articles about Game of Thrones for Esquire,[24] including ones comparing the characters to their historical counterparts[25] and discussing the controversial rape scene in "Breaker of Chains,"[26] and in 2015, he wrote articles about the fifth season of Game of Thrones for Salon.com.[4]

In October 2024, journalist and author Spencer Ackerman confirmed that he included Steven in his first issue of Iron Man as a tribute.[27]

Personal life

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Attewell's parents are Katherine S. Newman and Paul Attewell and he has one brother, David Attewell.[28][29] Attewell dealt with cancer on-and-off for years and lost a leg to it. He died of complications due to the cancer in April 2024.[30][31]

One of his ancestors, Adam Attewell, had joined John Ball's Great Society and was executed for rebellion against the crown.[32][33]

Bibliography

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Non-fiction Books

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  • Race for the Iron Throne: Political and Historical Analysis of "A Game of Thrones". First published through Kindle in 2014, then paperback in 2018. ISBN 978-1980635932.
  • Hands, Kings, & City-States: Analyzing a World of Ice and Fire. Self-published through Kindle in 2015, then in paperback in 2019. ISBN 978-1723898655.
  • Race for the Iron Throne, Vol. II: Political and Historical Analysis of "A Clash of Kings". Self-published in two parts through Kindle in 2016, then paperback in 2018. ISBN 978-1973464488.
  • People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan (Politics and Culture in Modern America). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0812250435.[34]
  • The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty [2 volumes]. Co-wrote the article "The Origins of the Middle Class." Greenwood, 2017. ISBN 978-1610697576.

Articles

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  • "Obama's Health-Care Gamble: History Is on His Side," Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2010, with Katherine Newman.[35]
  • "'No Business [That Pays Less Than a Living Wage]…Has Any Right to Continue'—Changing Rhetorics of the Minimum Wage," 1933–1981, Society, January 17, 2022.[36]

References

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  1. ^ a b "The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Professor Steven Attewell's People Must Live by Work- Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan". CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. August 26, 2018. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  2. ^ Blake, John (2014-05-24). "How 'Game of Thrones' is like America". CNN. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  3. ^ "This 'Game of Thrones' Fan Theory About Winterfell's Crypts Is Actually Optimistic". Glamour. 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  4. ^ a b "Steven Attewell's Articles at Salon.com". www.salon.com. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  5. ^ "Steven Attewell". Liminalities. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  6. ^ "About". Race for the Iron Throne. 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  7. ^ Left, Money on the (2024-10-05). "Direct Job Creation in America with Steven Attewell (New Transcript!)". Money on the Left. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  8. ^ "Steven Attewell – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  9. ^ Roof, Tracy (2020-06-01). "People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America, from Fdr to Reagan". Journal of American History. 107 (1): 229–230. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaaa110. ISSN 0021-8723.
  10. ^ Rauchway, Eric (April 6, 2021). Why the New Deal Matters. Yale University Press. p. 204. ISBN 9780300252002.
  11. ^ Aronoff, Kate (April 20, 2021). Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781568589961.
  12. ^ "Steven Attewell". New America. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  13. ^ "New-York Historical Society Announces Eleven Fellows for the 2014-15 Academic Year". The New York Historical. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  14. ^ "Steven Attewell | The Murphy Institute of Labor Studies - Academia.edu". sps-cuny.academia.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  15. ^ Attewell, Steven (2012-03-19). "Introduction to Race for the Iron Throne". Race for the Iron Throne. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  16. ^ Jonny. "Race for the Iron Throne: The Book". Tower of the Hand ~ An Ice and Fire Site. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  17. ^ Attewell, Steven (June 14, 2016). "Politics of the Seven Kingdoms, Part I". Tower of the Hand ~ An Ice and Fire Site. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  18. ^ "Steven Attewell, Author at Lawyers, Guns & Money". Lawyers, Guns & Money. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  19. ^ Attewell, Steven (2016-01-27). "New Weekly Feature: A People's History of the Marvel Universe". Lawyers, Guns & Money. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  20. ^ "People's History of the Marvel Universe Archives". Graphic Policy. 2023-12-14. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  21. ^ Graphic Policy (2022-03-04). The People's History of the Marvel Universe by Steven Attewell (Podcast). Retrieved 2025-02-07 – via YouTube.
  22. ^ "The Venture Bros. Podcast -". Graphic Policy. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  23. ^ "About the Realignment Project". The Realignment Project. 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  24. ^ "Steven Attewell". Esquire. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  25. ^ Attewell, Steven (2014-04-02). "Game of Thrones Characters vs. Historical Figures". Esquire. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  26. ^ Attewell, Steven (2014-04-28). "What Rape Scene? Thrones Marches On As If Nothing Happened". Esquire. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  27. ^ Goldsmith, Connor (2024-10-30), "Bonus Episode: Iron Man #1 (feat. Spencer Ackerman)", Cerebro, retrieved 2025-02-07
  28. ^ Newton, Katherine (2021-12-16). "FROM COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO A 4-YEAR DEGREE, A PATH WITH MANY BENEFITS". US Heartland China. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
  29. ^ Newman, Katherine (May 18, 1993). Declining Fortunes: The Withering Of The American Dream. Basic Books. pp. XII. ISBN 9780465015931.
  30. ^ Levin, Elana (2024-04-11). "Steven Attewell; The Maester of Fandom". Graphic Policy. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  31. ^ Rasher, Sarah Daniel (2024-04-12). "Steven's Last Night in Town". The Rasher Report. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  32. ^ Attewell, Steven (2009-03-30). "Culture Corner: The Politics of High Fantasy". Work-In-Progress Administration. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  33. ^ Attewell, Steven (June 29, 2016). "Race For The Iron Throne". Archived from the original on 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  34. ^ "People Must Live by Work – Penn Press". University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  35. ^ Attewell, Steven; Newman, Katherine (2010-04-11). "Obama's Health-Care Gamble: History Is on His Side". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
  36. ^ Attewell, Steven (2021-12-01). ""No Business [That Pays Less Than a Living Wage]…Has Any Right to Continue"—Changing Rhetorics of the Minimum Wage, 1933–1981". Society. 58 (6): 507–519. doi:10.1007/s12115-021-00658-9. ISSN 1936-4725.
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