| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855–1916. By Anne E. Mosher. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx, 249 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-7381-9.)

At midday on May 17, 1990, a historical marker was unveiled and dedicated in front of the Casino Municipal Building in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, a southwestern industrial town in the Kiskiminetas Valley. The words on the blue metal placard read as follows:

Hailed by historian Ida Tarbell as America's "most important industrial town," with homes owned by the workers. Founded 1895 by Geo. G. McMurty, president, Apollo Iron & Steel Co. Named for Capt. Jacob J. Vandergrift and designed by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted. (p. 182)

Professor Anne E. Mosher, associate professor of geography and codirector of the Global Affairs Institute's Space and Place Initiative in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, has done a very good job of explaining the questions that may be generated while reading the marker in her Capital's Utopia.

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