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Children of the City

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The turn of the century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished--and until now u...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published May 22nd 1986 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1985)
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