MARK E. SANTOW is Assistant Professor of American History and a fellow at the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, specializing in 20th-Century American urban history, politics, and social policy. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University, and Gonzaga University, and published numerous essays on segregation, urban policy, and the "war on poverty." His book, Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race in the Post-War City, will be published in 2006.