Ted Steinberg offers a very entertaining report on the origin and history behind American's obsession with lawns (as the title states). This book was suggested reading during a college course I took on Nature and Society. Decided to read it to learn more on the topic and so glad I did. I think this should be required reading for all young adults (although I'm much older than a young adult, I wish I would have had more of this knowledge when I was younger.) I do think the author could have gone into more depth in some areas, it seemed as though he was only scraping the surface of many consequences of The American Lawn. For example, he spent many pages driving home the danger of operating lawn care equipment, but only mentioned maybe once or twice the fact that millions of birds die each year as a result of fertilizer use on lawns, not to mention the myriad other ways those chemicals invade every aspect of our lives.
The printing of the book, unfortunately, was pretty terrible. The photos were not even discernable - printed in b&w, which is fine, but they are so grainy and lacking in contrast they mostly look like big gray boxes on the page. The poor quality of printing doesn't do this book justice.
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