Crabgrass Frontier The Suburbanization of the United States |
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| Author:
| Jackson, Kenneth T. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-503610-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1985 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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In America, in contrast to almost anywhere else in the world, the good life means traveling a long distance to get to work. How and why this came to be the cultural norm is the subject of Crabgrass Frontier. Awarded both the Bancroft Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, Professor Jackson's book is the first to trace the growth of the suburbs from their origins in the 1820s--in Brooklyn Heights opposite Manhattan--until the present day.
In America, in contrast to almost anywhere else in the world, the good life means traveling a long distance to get to work. How and why this came to be the cultural norm is the subject of Crabgrass Frontier. Awarded both the Bancroft Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, Professor Jackson's book is the first to trace the growth of the suburbs from their origins in the 1820s--in Brooklyn Heights opposite Manhattan--until the present day.