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Victorian London
The Tale of a City 1840--1870
Liza Picard
St. Martin's Griffin
"The author freezes a three-decade time frame to capture the essence—literally, the sights, sounds, and odors—of the British capital at the height of the Victorian era. Picard's systematic examination offers both detail and insight into conditions of life, from all
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of life, as she presents an account at once greatly factual and highly atmospheric. The format is logical and the material easy to follow, with chapters ranging in topic from 'Smells' (to really appreciate London back then, the author instructs the reader to 'think of the worst smell you have ever met'), 'The Streets,' 'Destitution and Poverty,' 'Upper Classes and Royalty,' 'Health,' 'Education,' and 'Religion' . . . [F]or serious and well-versed readers seeking to stoke their interest in learning more about the city that, at the time, was the
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American Mafia
A History of Its Rise to Power
Thomas Reppetto
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"Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." —The New York Times Book...
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Fall River Dreams
A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for It's Soul
Bill Reynolds
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In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall...
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Low Life
Lures and Snares of Old New York
Luc Sante; With a New Afterword by the Author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"Fascinating . . . We should all be grateful to Luc Sante [for] this entertaining and sobering history of New York's 'dark side' . . . [
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Family Properties
How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
Beryl Satter
Picador
"The historian and the storyteller in Ms. Satter are never at war with each other.
Family Properties
is so packed with the horrors visited upon black families in Chicago from the 1940s through the 1970s that you will want to walk outside every 15 pages or so and simply scream in outrage. Yet her tone throughout is dispassionate. She is at heart a historian, not a memoirist. And she is a vertiginously good one. Her book is transfixing from its first sentence . . . the pleasures here are deep and resonant ones.
Family Properties
feels like something close to an instant classic."—
Dwight Garner,
The New York Times
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Variations on a Theme Park
The New American City and the End of Public Space
Edited by Michael Sorkin
Hill and Wang
America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional...
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Waste and Want
A Social History of Trash
Susan Strasser
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An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's...
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Rats
Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Robert Sullivan
Bloomsbury USA
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback with an all-new afterword by the author. Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are...
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