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America's Undeclared War: What's Killing Our Cities and How We Can Stop It Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Daniel Lazare
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"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1800, sounding a note that has echoed throughout American history. In this bracing reexamination, Daniel Lazare traces the progress of America's unwavering war on its cities and looks at the profound consequences.
From Jefferson through Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt to the present, we have labored to wither our cities, simultaneously fouling our air and our landscape, depleting our energy resources to feed our automobiles and neglecting any form of community other than hollow, homogenous suburbs. And yet the average American has a smaller share of the country's wealth than the average European and less opportunity to improve his or her lot.
Provocative and enlightening, America's Undeclared War exposes a prejudice both fundamental and destructive to American culture. With a mordant wit and a refreshing clarity, Lazare offers a vision that can re-invigorate us, our communities, and our future.
From Jefferson through Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt to the present, we have labored to wither our cities, simultaneously fouling our air and our landscape, depleting our energy resources to feed our automobiles and neglecting any form of community other than hollow, homogenous suburbs. And yet the average American has a smaller share of the country's wealth than the average European and less opportunity to improve his or her lot.
Provocative and enlightening, America's Undeclared War exposes a prejudice both fundamental and destructive to American culture. With a mordant wit and a refreshing clarity, Lazare offers a vision that can re-invigorate us, our communities, and our future.
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AMERICANS TEND to view the past through the lenses of the present.
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- Title America's Undeclared War: What's Killing Our Cities and How We Can Stop It
- Author Daniel Lazare
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
- Date April 23, 2001
- ISBN 9780151005529 / 0151005524
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.23 x 1.13 in (23.37 x 15.82 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Suburbs - United States, Inner cities - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00050567
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.760
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PRAISE FOR THE FROZEN REPUBLIC
"Lazare's knowledge of American history is as persuasive as his wit. Like most worthwhile books, The Frozen Republic obliges the reviewer to choose among its virtues."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"One needn't agree with Lazare's centralizing preferences to be impressed by his flowing prose and well-deployed facts, which speak broadly to we the people, not just they the lawyers."-BOOKLIST
"Lazare's knowledge of American history is as persuasive as his wit. Like most worthwhile books, The Frozen Republic obliges the reviewer to choose among its virtues."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"One needn't agree with Lazare's centralizing preferences to be impressed by his flowing prose and well-deployed facts, which speak broadly to we the people, not just they the lawyers."-BOOKLIST
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