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City of American Dreams (Paperback)
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City of American Dreams (Paperback)
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In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after
the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American
celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian
to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of
capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape
into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural
progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership
emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb
skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American
infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply
divided along class and racial lines.
Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health
reform, and ordinary homeowners--African American and white,
affluent and working class--"City of American Dreams" provides a
richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban
centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set
on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American
dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.
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