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"In his deeply researched and well-written book BOURGEOIS NIGHTMARES, MIT historian Robert Fogelson shows that American suburbs have assumed their sprawling form precisely because developers wanted to curb individual choice. In this dark genealogy of suburbia, Fogelson persuasively demonstrates that fear--not future-looking optimism--shaped the geography of metropolitan America."Fogelson, Robert M. is the author of 'Bourgeois Nightmares Suburbia, 1870-1930', published 2007 under ISBN 9780300124170 and ISBN 0300124171.
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