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A Nation of Neighborhoods

Edited by Lila Fernndez, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Becky M. Nicolaides, and Amanda Seligman

James R. Grossman, editor emeritus

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A Nation of Neighborhoods

Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Benjamin Looker

The University of Chicago Press

Chicago and London

BENJAMIN LOOKER teaches in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London

2015 by The University of Chicago

All rights reserved. Published 2015.

Printed in the United States of America

24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07398-9 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29031-7 (paper)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-29045-4 (e-book)

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226290454.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Looker, Benjamin, 1978 author.

A nation of neighborhoods : imagining cities, communities, and democracy in postwar America / Benjamin Looker.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-226-07398-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-226-29031-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-226-29045-4 (ebook) 1. NeighborhoodsUnited States. 2. United StatesSocial conditions20th century. 3. Cities and townsUnited States. I. Title.

HT123.L66 2015

307.33620973dc23

2015008524

Special thanks to the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation (www.ezra-jack-keats.org/).

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