| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs. By Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara J. Cottrell, Harl A. Dalstrom, and Kay Calamè Dalstrom. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiii + 507 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliographic essay, index. $19.95; CAN $24.95; £15.50.)

This is an outstanding book in every way, a model of what an urban history can and should be. The balance between narrative—cracking good stories even, and all the better for being wholly accurate—and serious analysis is near perfect. The only quibbles might be that it is somewhat awkward attaching Council Bluffs to a work where the real interest is in Omaha, that it is difficult for most anybody to come right up to the present (as this book does) without some loss of focus, and that Lawrence Larsen had written a good history of Omaha earlier. The co-authorship does not seem to have compromised either the seamlessness or the style of this often vivid account. The research is outstanding, and deeply original.

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