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ISBN10: 0465041930, ISBN13: 9780465041930, [publisher: Basic Books] Softcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
New York: Basic Books, Inc./A Division of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., Date: 1995. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich (Cover Design); Elliot Beard (Design). 310 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Synopsis: The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America, Alan Ehrenhalt, Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure. The 1950s are regarded as the golden age of community, but 1960s rebellion and 1980s nostalgia have blurred our view of what life was really like back then. In The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt cuts through the fog, immersing us in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of life in America forty years ago. He takes us down the streets and into the homes, schools, and shops of three neighborhoods in one quintessentially American city: Chicago. In St. Nicholas of Tolentine parish on the Southwest Side, we see how the local Catholic church served as the moral and social center of community life. In Bronzeville, the heart of the black South Side, we meet the civic leaders who offered hope and role models to people hemmed in by poverty and segregation. And in Elmhurst, a commuter suburb bursting with new subdivisions, we witness the culture of middle-class conformity and the ways ...
ISBN10: 0465041930, ISBN13: 9780465041930, [publisher: Basic Books, Inc./A Division of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York] Softcover 310 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Synopsis: The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America, Alan Ehrenhalt, Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure. The 1950s are regarded as the golden age of community, but 1960s rebellion and 1980s nostalgia have blurred our view of what life was really like back then. In The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt cuts through the fog, immersing us in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of life in America forty years ago. He takes us down the streets and into the homes, schools, and shops of three neighborhoods in one quintessentially American city: Chicago. In St. Nicholas of Tolentine parish on the Southwest Side, we see how the local Catholic church served as the moral and social center of community life. In Bronzeville, the heart of the black South Side, we meet the civic leaders who offered hope and role models to people hemmed in by poverty and segregation. And in Elmhurst, a commuter suburb bursting with new subdivisions, we witness the culture of middle-class conformity and the ways in which children and adults bent to the rules of the majority culture. Through evocative stories and incisive analysis, ...
ISBN10: 0465041930, ISBN13: 9780465041930, [publisher: Basic Books 8/23/1996] Softcover The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America 0.78 [Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
ISBN10: 0465041930, ISBN13: 9780465041930, [publisher: Basic Books] Softcover Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!! [Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]
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Paperback / softback. New. In this examination of life in America in the 1950s, Alan Ehrenhalt reveals how an earlier generation fostered a sense of community by accepting limits in their lives and by deferring to authority figures to enforce those limits. ISBN 0465041930 9780465041930 [GB]
Basic Books, Date: 1996-08-23. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1996. Basic Books ISBN 0465041930 9780465041930 [US]
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