A Sort of Utopia by Carol A O'connor
In this clear and well-written study, Professor Carol O'Connor explains how Scarsdale came to be the classic rich suburb. Using a wide range of sources-from local newspapers, to village and school board records, to real estate deeds and census tracts-she shows how its residents have invested time, effort, and their own tax dollars in making Scarsdale a wealthy, attractive, convenient community. She also discusses the question of who rules in Scarsdale and examines one group, its domestic servants, who, at least in the past, have played an important but invisible role. Professor O'Connor analyzes the reaction of residents to national events, from their unquestioning nationalism in the First World War to the deep divisiveness of the Vietnam era. What emerges in these pages is not simply a chronicle of what occurred in Scarsdale, but an insightful perspective on many national trends of the twentieth century.Carol A. O'Connor brings to this book the perspective of a Scarsdale native. She began researching the suburb as a joint proposition to better understand herself and her neighbors and to lay the groundwork for her doctoral dissertation. Her personal motivation yielded to the overwhelming implications of her study for twentieth-century American social history. She is currently assistant professor of history at Utah State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780873956598 |
| ISBN 10 | 0873956591 |
| Title | A Sort of Utopia |
| Author | Carol A O'connor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1983-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 294 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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