| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds. The New Suburban History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 264. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.00.

The New Suburban History is a collection of ten essays on the American suburban landscape written by scholars in the field. According to the editors, who are known more for their studies on cities (Kruse on Atlanta, Sugrue on Detroit), these articles put suburbs and suburbanization into "a broader metropolitan perspective" that notes their "political and economic relationship with central cities, competing suburbs, and their regions" (p. 6). Hence, there are chapters by Matthew D. Lassiter on the conflict in the early 1970s about court-ordered busing in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg metropolitan area of North Carolina, by Margaret Pugh O'Mara on how federal cold-war defense policies coincided with mass suburbanization and influenced the locales of high-tech suburbs from California to Massachusetts, by Robert O. Self on the politics of suburban growth in San Francisco's East Bay suburbs, and by Peter Siskind on examples of discontent and reform in the suburban counties of Washington, D.C., and New York City.

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