| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950. By Robert M. Fogelson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. xii, 492 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-09062-5.)

This is a work of synthesis, thoroughly grounded in published primary sources and secondary literature, describing the roles played by business owners and business organizations, politicians, and planners, backed up by a supporting cast of newspaper editors, community activists of diverse types, and city voters in shaping the history of America's downtown districts. Robert M. Fogelson warns readers that some may find his book unfashionable, because he does not describe the experience of ordinary people on the sidewalks of New York or represent the discourse of subaltern slum dwellers in Chicago. Instead he aims to identify the ideas and the interests of the power brokers and political movers and shakers whose activities shaped the history of Downtown USA. . . .

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