| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Anne E. Mosher. Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift Pennsylvania, 1855–1916. (Creating the North American Landscape.) Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 249. $45.00.
Ida Tarbell once referred to Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, as "the most important industrial town in America" (p. 175). Indeed, Tarbell would be pleased with Anne E. Mosher's multifaceted analysis of this once significant industrial town. Here scholars and lay readers alike will find an intriguing historical analysis that blends urban planning, geography, landscape architecture, industrialization, and the relationship between capital and labor to tell the story of how Vandergrift developed, prospered, survived, and ultimately struggled with economic forces beyond its control.	1
Not unlike the situation in many nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial towns, the relationship between capital and labor, in large measure, defined the social and economic environment from which Vandergrift emerged. To mitigate against striking workers and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in Apollo (Armstrong County), George McMurtry of the Apollo Iron and Steel Company secured the assistance of popular landscape architects Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot to create the new planned community of Vandergrift (Westmoreland County). McMurtry's vision was that Vandergrift be the ideal industrial town with the steel company as its anchor and affordable worker housing and pleasant urban environment as its allures.	. . .

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