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The Golden Dream

- Suburbia in the 1970s
Af: Stephen Birmingham Engelsk Paperback

The Golden Dream

- Suburbia in the 1970s
Af: Stephen Birmingham Engelsk Paperback
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In this chatty, anecdotal, and often ironic inquiry, Stephen Birmingham investigates the nesting habits, enjoyments, and frustrations of American suburban life in the Seventies. He explores the social organism that is the American suburb—from Scottsdale Arizona, and Salt Lake City’s suburbs, to New York’s Westchester County and the suburbs surrounding the great industrial cities that fringe the Great Lakes. He has talked with householders great and small and gleaned their intensely personal views of the suburban experience: what they like, what they lament, what they fear. Much of what he records is agreeable gossip—as in his account of the relationship between the Pocantico Hills Rockefellers and the Greenwich Rockefellers; some is acute social criticism.Almost without exception, the suburbanites came to the suburbs with a dream. The reality they found was often less than what they envisioned, but occasionally it was more. Most have had to strike a compromise between the dream and the reality, the swimming pool and manicured lawn and soaring property tax, good public schools and out-of-sight school taxes. This compromise in its various manifestations, and the related problems of status, add a depth of perspective to a book that oozes the fun and charm of the Seventies.
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In this chatty, anecdotal, and often ironic inquiry, Stephen Birmingham investigates the nesting habits, enjoyments, and frustrations of American suburban life in the Seventies. He explores the social organism that is the American suburb—from Scottsdale Arizona, and Salt Lake City’s suburbs, to New York’s Westchester County and the suburbs surrounding the great industrial cities that fringe the Great Lakes. He has talked with householders great and small and gleaned their intensely personal views of the suburban experience: what they like, what they lament, what they fear. Much of what he records is agreeable gossip—as in his account of the relationship between the Pocantico Hills Rockefellers and the Greenwich Rockefellers; some is acute social criticism.Almost without exception, the suburbanites came to the suburbs with a dream. The reality they found was often less than what they envisioned, but occasionally it was more. Most have had to strike a compromise between the dream and the reality, the swimming pool and manicured lawn and soaring property tax, good public schools and out-of-sight school taxes. This compromise in its various manifestations, and the related problems of status, add a depth of perspective to a book that oozes the fun and charm of the Seventies.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 222
ISBN-13: 9781493024728
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1493024728
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 15 aug 2016
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 233mm
Højde: 185mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato: 15 aug 2016
Forfatter(e): Stephen Birmingham
Forfatter(e) Stephen Birmingham

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9781493024728

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 222

Udgave

Længde 14mm

Bredde 233mm

Højde 185mm

Udg. Dato 15 aug 2016

Oplagsdato 15 aug 2016

Forlag Rowman & Littlefield

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