In his inventive and long-overdue Suburban Myth, Donaldson makes a spirited defense of the suburban way of life against its legion of detractors. Full of wit and wisdom, the book is a fascinating contribution to the city-country controversy.
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Formerly editor and publisher of one of the nation's largest suburban weeklies, Donaldson has gone on to a career as a literary biographer of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cheever, and MacLeish. The Suburban Myth is his first book.
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Park Forest, Crestwood Heights, New York, United States, Long Island, World War, New Jersey, New Deal, Social Ethic, Thomas Jefferson, San Francisco, The Organization Man, New Towns, Paul Douglass, Spruce Manor, David Wallace, Garden of Eden, Revolutionary Road, David Riesman, Peaceable Lane, New England, Garden City, Glen Cove, Broadacre City, Walden Pond Browse Sample Pages:
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Park Forest, Crestwood Heights, New York, United States, Long Island, World War, New Jersey, New Deal, Social Ethic, Thomas Jefferson, San Francisco, The Organization Man, New Towns, Paul Douglass, Spruce Manor, David Wallace, Garden of Eden, Revolutionary Road, David Riesman, Peaceable Lane, New England, Garden City, Glen Cove, Broadacre City, Walden Pond Browse Sample Pages:
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