| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930. By Robert M. Fogelson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 264 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-10876-1.)
Robert M. Fogelson, the author of several important volumes of urban history since the publication of his well-regarded book about Los Angeles nearly forty years ago, has added again to our storehouse of knowledge. Although uncharacteristically concise, Bourgeois Nightmares sustains his penchant for deep research.	1
Following a path taken in his acclaimed book Downtown (2001), this volume opens autobiographically: "Early in the 1950s, a couple of years before I finished high school ..." (p. 1). We learn that his parents made an effort, thwarted in spite of their financial qualifications, to purchase a single-family home in the Westchester County suburb of New Rochelle. Their goal was to move from their Bronx apartment. Meeting none-too-subtle resistance, the Fogelsons settled into a co-op apartment in Manhattan. Not that the author is alone in tacking on to his own experiences. William Cronon in Nature's Metropolis (1999) and Lizabeth Cohen in Consumers' Republic (2003) certainly plied this path.	. . .

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