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#1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory brings to life the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman of passion and of legend who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses to bring her family unimaginable power.

When the young and beautiful Jacquetta is married to the older Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. Her only friend in the great household is the duke’s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the duke’s death leaves her a wealthy young widow. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen.

The Woodvilles soon achieve a place at the very heart of the Lancaster court, though Jacquetta has visions of the growing threat from the people of England and the danger of their royal York rivals. Jacquetta fights for her king and queen, as she sees an extraordinary and unexpected future for her daughter Elizabeth: a change of fortune, the white rose of York, and the throne of England…

• Sales Rank: #22000 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-03
• Released on: 2012-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.00" w x 5.25" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

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"The best writers of historical fiction imbue the past with the rich tapestry of life and depth, and Gregory is surely counted among their number. . . .A worthy addition to this fascinating series, once again distinguished by excellent characterization, thorough research, and a deft touch with the written word." -"Library Journal"

"Confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict, betrayal, and political maneuvering." --"Publishers Weekly"

"Sexy...scandalous...smart." -"Redbook"

"Gregory is a consummate historical author." -"Historical Novels Review"

"The ethereal magic threaded throughout the story. . . .contrasts nicely with the power politics." -"Booklist"

"The suspenseful pace never flags." -"Kirkus"

"The best yet, a lively tale of witchcraft and romance set amid civil wars in England and France." -Associated Press

"This rip-roarer possesses the same intimate imaginative texture of Gregory's classic "The Other Boleyn Girl". . . . It's about love, power and human weakness." --USAToday.com

"The best yet, a lively tale . . . set amid civil wars in England and France." -Associated Press

"Gregory returns with another sister act. The result: her best novel in years."

"Gregory delivers another vivid and satisfying novel of court intrigue, revenge, and superstition. Gregory's many fans as well as readers who enjoy lush, evocative writing, vividly drawn characters, and fascinating history told from a woman's point of view will love her latest work."

"Gregory is one of historical fiction's superstars, and "The Kingmaker's Daughter" shows why . . . providing intelligent escape, a trip through time to a dangerous past."

"Wielding magic again in her latest War of the Roses novel ... Gregory demonstrates the passion and skill that has made her the queen of English historical fiction....Gregory portrays spirited women at odds with powerful men, endowing distant historical events with drama, and figures long dead or invented with real-life flaws and grand emotions. She makes history ... come alive for readers."

About the Author
Philippa Gregory is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Her Cousins’ War novels are the basis for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen. Her most recent novel is Three Sisters, Three Queens. She graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University, and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff. She welcomes visitors to her website, PhilippaGregory.com.

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161 of 173 people found the following review helpful.
Great read
By K. Baumanis
This is the third novel in Philippa's series The Cousins' War, but chronologically (so far anyway) sets the scene and characters for the whole series. What I enjoy the most about her books is their authenticity...her characters do not use 21st century slang or mannerisms, a feature which makes me cringe with some historical novels.Philippa has clearly researched her topic and does not hide or water down how conditions were in those days...fleas, disease, death, women used as pawns in their families with no rights...it may offend our present day values but is true and honest. I highly recommend this book and all her writing...

60 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
THE LADY OF THE RIVERS is a fascinating novel that reflects King Henry VI's reign as though Philippa Gregory were there herself
By Bookreporter
From a young age, Jacquetta of Luxembourg has known things that other people don't. The ability to foresee future events is a gift she doesn't understand, even though it's an integral part of her family history. The women who came before her, descended from the river goddess Melusina, have been the keepers of the secret of their second sight for generations. Unfortunately, psychic awareness is a dangerous possession at a time when accusations of witchcraft, punished by painful, fiery deaths, abound.

When the book begins in France in 1430, Jacquetta is in the company of the captured girl leader, Joan of Arc. While Jacquetta develops a fondness for Joan, their friendship doesn't last long. In spite of Jacquetta's hopes for Joan's freedom, Joan is burned at the stake, an event that she is forced to witness.

As a notoriously beautiful young woman, it isn't long until Jacquetta captures the eye of the Duke of Bedford, one of the most powerful men in England. At 17, she becomes his bride and leaves France to begin a new life in England as part of the royal court of King Henry VI, where intrigue and treachery run rampant. While most men would have chosen Jacquetta to satisfy their baser desires, the Duke has loftier intentions. He encourages her occult skills and urges her to reveal his future military fate. Unfortunately, Jacquetta has not come into her own yet and is unable to help the Duke in the way that he desires, no matter how much he insists.

While remaining faithful to the Duke, Jacquetta cannot deny the feelings in her heart that tell her that Richard Woodville, her husband's squire and trusted companion, is the man for her. When her husband dies only two years into their marriage, Jacquetta is heartbroken at the thought of losing Richard when he plans to accept another post.

Not one to deny her feelings, Jacquetta finds a way to stay with Richard, and the two are surreptitiously married without the approval of King Henry VI. Ordered to pay a staggeringly substantial fine as a result of their disobedience, the two eventually regain the good graces of the King and return to a life at court. Unfortunately, their very closeness to royalty will ultimately lead to their downfall.

Set during the reign of the House of Lancaster and the times of the Wars of the Roses, THE LADY OF THE RIVERS is a fascinating novel that reflects King Henry VI's reign as though author Philippa Gregory were there herself to experience it firsthand. As you turn the pages of this lengthy book, I defy you to see that your heart remains untouched by the true love match of Richard, eventually to become the first Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta. In spite of your best efforts, it can't be done.

Reviewed by Amie Taylor

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
Greggory plays it safe again... results are bland and predictable.
By Kate
Summary: The Lady of the Rivers is the third book in the Cousin's War series spanning the time period near the War of the Roses. Even though it's the third book in the series, chronologically it's the first. The story is the life of Jacquetta of Luxembourg from near the time of her first marriage to the Duke of Bedford and ends near where The White Queen (the novel about her daughter, Elizabeth Woodville) begins.

I like historical fiction. I also generally like Greggory's novels (though she's also had more than her fair share of absolute bombs as well). She's kind of a guilty pleasure for me. I know that her novels are not groundbreaking works of fiction that will be discussed in literary circles for generations to come. It's "candy fiction". It tastes good, but you know there is no nutritional value. This is especially true with The Cousin's War series, where she takes many more liberties with actual historical events than she does in the Tudor novels. Granted, the Tudor family, and Anne Boleyn (obviously from The Other Boleyn Girl, her best work to date) especially, are much better documented in historical documents. So, some of this can be explained away by simply a lack of records from these times and characters. However, the fact still remains that these books are entertainment only, and not a "history reference".

There are things I enjoyed about this novel. It held my interest well enough. I liked the inclusion of alchemy and mysticism which added an interesting angle, even if it did make the already factually flawed novel even more unbelievable. I liked Margaret of Anjou! She was really the only character that I thought was truly dynamic. Her transition from the young apprehensive bride of Henry VI to a power hungry monarch desperately trying to hold on to her crown was very interesting. I kind of wish the story was from her perspective, actually. Henry VI's character was also fairly interesting, however he's very much a background character here.

The rest of the characters are all just plain "stock personalities", and this is the major problem I have with the book. In fact, this is the major problem I have with Greggory's writing as a whole. She yammers on for pages at the end of the novel something like "history doesn't represent these women well", and that's what she sets out to do; to bring their story to life. Well, friggin' do it then! She is not doing these women any service when she writes such flat boring personalities. Philippa, you have so much to work with here. Jacquetta was an immensely interesting person who lived during one of the most interesting (I believe) times in European history, and she was very much an "insider" of much of these events. Yet, the novel only briefly glances at these subjects. In the novel, Jacquetta spends the vast majority of her time having children (which is true, she had a lot), worrying about her children, and worrying about her husband. The character rarely comments on the political situation of her country. She was in charge of the lands she owned with her husband during the times he was away (which was frequent), and yet she never has anything to say about how this war is affecting her own people? I think she might have mentioned this once or twice, but the overwhelming majority of the novel is focused on her relationship with her husband.

And that brings up another reason why this novel is a failure. Why is she so in love with Richard Woodville? Obviously the real historical character was because she married him despite the fact that it could have destroyed her social life and standing in the English court. However, the book never gives a compelling reason why these two people loved each other so much. They "just do". It just sorta happens. What begins as just mild crush suddenly turns into an "I can't live without him and I'll sacrifice anything for it" love. But again, why? What did Richard do to earn that place in her heart. For this to have taken place in real life, in the time that it did, obviously the love and bond between these two people had to be pretty extraordinary, but all he really did in the novel was teach her to ride a horse and find her in the woods, which were basically duties for him, so it's not like he ever went above and beyond for Jaquetta. I just didn't feel like there was really anything to make me care about the love between these two people. It's weak, but we're told that it's epic... yet never shown why.

Further is Greggory's very annoying habit of trying to shove a feminist angle down our throats in each and every novel. I'll tell you why this is so annoying. I feel like Greggory prides herself as doing some great service to these women by "telling their story" and showing the importance of women in history, yet all of her female characters (seriously, ALL OF THEM (except maybe Margaret of Anjou... which is why I liked her so much here)) are written as meek and spineless and never question being used as pawns for "their men". History has given us multiple cases were this is not true, including women she, herself, has previously written about. It's not true of Anne Boleyn, but she's presented that way in The Other Boleyn Girl (Anne Boleyn was independent almost to a fault). It's not true of Anne of Cleve's, yet she's shown as being a scared little girl with a victim mentality in The Boleyn Inheritance (in face, Anne of Cleve's made out pretty darn well in her marriage to Henry VIII and handled her divorce with a lot of confidence and strength). It is ABSOLUTELY not true of Mary I, but she's totally meek, lacking in confidence, and watery in The Queen's Fool. And I am very certain that an independently wealthy widower who MADE THE CHOICE HERSELF to marry beneath her, defy protocol, and threaten all that she had, and then was the "right hand woman" of the Queen of England, was most certainly an independent thinking woman with very strong opinions and the guts to stand up for her own interests. These are not the actions of a woman who mopes around and whines "it's a man's world, so what can you do". This was most likely not a woman who would settle for just anything that was handed to her. She most likely had very strong opinions about things, and probably expressed them pretty frequently as well. Greggory talks a big talk about traditional history doing these women a disservice by putting them on the back burner, but the personalities that she actually gives these characters is much more "weak" than that of actual historians which she complains of. She does more of a disservice to them than anyone. This faux-feminism thing is a constant theme with her, and it's very irritating. It makes one wonder if Philippa herself has this victim mentality and feels the need to press that onto every female character she has ever written.

The male characters aren't even worth talking about. Once again, with the exception of King Henry, every male character in the entire book has the same voice/personality. Greggory cannot seem to handle writing from a male perspective. I thought she was getting better with Edward IV in The White Queen (I liked him in that book. He was more than just another stock personality), but now I realize that was probably just a lucky fluke for her because in this books he has none of that ever-so-slightly cheeky charm that he had in the previously mentioned book. He's yet another flat stock character, and I couldn't care less about him.

Lets talk about the writing. I am not writer (I was a science major), but even I can recognize the writing here as weak. Rather than making the actual story more compelling, there are a lot of "tricks" employed to keep the reader reading. Are we really supposed to believe that Jacquetta was "BFF's" with Joan of Arc? Are we really supposed to believe that it's plausible that a unicorn led Woodville to Jacquetta's rescue. How many times do we have to "anxiously await news" of Richard Woodville's fate in battle before it gets old (because that's pretty much all Jacquetta seems to do in the book)? Is he dead? Is he okay? Find out in the next chapter! If you've read the previous novel, or know the history, it actually gets old really fast. Using hokey story lines and superficial cliff hangers is just a lazy effort to keep the reader hooked. I want to be hooked because the characters are compelling and the plot is interesting, not through the use of contrived plot devices.

In summary, I'm giving this book two stars. A very "weak" two stars. Yeah, it was entertaining enough to hold me through till the end, like most of her novels I've read, but it really feels like Greggory "phoned it in" on this one. There's nothing new here, which is disappointing given how much could have been done with this character and setting. It's the same thing she always writes but with new characters in a new setting. Greggory took no risks here. She did nothing to expand on what she's previously done. It's very "safe", and so what were left with is something very predictable, bland, devoid of passion, devoid of care, and ultimately a real let-down. Yes, it's "readable", but who cares? I want more from you Greggory!

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A Spellbinding Thriller about a Science History Professor on the Run for his Life and an Unpublished Einstein Theory that Could Change the World Debut novelist Mark Alpert brings one of the most explosive books of 2008, seamlessly weaving current issues of science, history, and politics with white-knuckle chases. David Swift, a professor at Columbia University, is called to the hospital to comfort his mentor, a physicist who's been brutally tortured. Before dying, the old man wheezes "Einheitliche Feldtheorie." The Theory of Everything. The Destroyer of Worlds. Could this be Einstein's proposed Unified Theory--a set of equations that combines the physics of galaxies with the laws of atoms? Einstein never succeeded in discovering it. Or did he? Within hours of hearing his mentor's last words, David is running for his life. The FBI and a ruthless mercenary are vying to get their hands on the long-hidden theory. Teaming up with his old girlfriend, a brilliant Princeton scientist, David frantically works out Einstein's final theory to reveal the staggering scope of its consequences. With publishers around the world snapping up rights in twenty-two countries, the book has already become a global phenomenon, and the dynamic characters and gripping plot will keep readers compulsively turning the pages until the very end.

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• Original language: English
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Alpert's exciting debut takes the premise that Albert Einstein succeeded in discovering a unified field theory, but hid the result, fearing it could lead to weapons far more powerful than the atom bomb. In the present day, several contenders—the U.S. government, a savage mercenary bent on revenge, various scientists—all scramble to uncover the theory. Theoretical physicist Hans Kleinman, once one of Einstein's assistants, is tortured by an intruder who demands he divulge the theory. Columbia University professor David Swift is at Kleinman's bedside when the old man makes a few cryptic statements, imparts a string of numbers and then dies. Soon David is off and running for his life, as all the theory seekers give chase. David stays one step ahead with the help of the beautiful Monique Reynolds, another physicist. Alpert, a Scientific American columnist, sticks to proper thriller structure while imparting interesting and accessible science. The relentless action, including one giant twist and plenty of smaller ones, builds to a pulse-pounding conclusion. (June)
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*Starred Review* Although David Swift wanted to become a scientist like his beloved professor, Dr. Hans Kleinman, he couldn’t manage the math. Instead, he wrote a best-selling book about Albert Einstein. Now Swift is shocked to learn that his elderly mentor has been brutally tortured. With his dying breaths, Kleinman tells Swift that, contrary to common knowledge, Einstein did complete his unified field theory, but the consequences were so catastrophic, he kept it secret. Now the feds and the sadistic Chechnyan who attacked Kleinman will do anything to secure Einstein’s secret formula. Accordingly, Swift must live up to his name, outrun his vicious assailants, and find Einstein’s hidden notebooks. With the help of cool-under-pressure Monique Reynolds, a resourceful African American physicist, Swift leads a wildly choreographed chase. Alpert, an editor for Scientific American, laces his high-IQ doomsday thriller with clearly explicated and hauntingly beautiful scientific theories and delivers readers to such intriguing locations as Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and the Fermi National Acceleration Laboratory. An ingenious scientist turned evil mastermind, a snake handler, a stripper, a video-game-obsessed autistic teen, and sly digs at a certain presidential administration add up to a strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventure. --Donna Seaman

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"Wow! Einstein would have loved this book. It's a great thriller, it has a sure feel for politics, and the science is both fun and solid. He always dreamed that he would discover a unified theory that explained all of nature's forces. Now this book makes the quest come alive." -- Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great idea that could be better told
By James L. Spingarn
The idea of the Field Theory of Everything (it explains the relationship of all physical laws, particularly those between relativity and quantum mechanics) is an amazing, but apparently a real, Holy Grail for physics. The thought to fictionalize it is a wonderful story concept. Only with the science, which is apparently, and I'm no expert, reasonably accurate, it must coalesce with a believable story-line. The fictional tale of the hero David Swift and his adventure is ludicrous with concocted strange characters including the dope-addicted, prostitute daughter of a leading physicist and her autistic son, whom the author late in the book calls an "idiot" (interesting politically or socially incorrect verbiage)and a crazed, revengeful (on a senseless mission) Russian assasin are all much too far out for me.

The science and the threat the Field Theory presents, and it's a true historic tie to Einstein, are fascinating; someone else should have scripted the fictional part. Read it for the intersting science and whiz past the rest of the story.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Lack of knowledge doesn't hurt
By John Bowes
It may help you enjoy this story. Not knowing much physics avoids spotting any glaring errors or implausible science. The action is passable though the many escapes will strain credibility. Not a bad beach book.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Save your money: this book goes in the trash
By Only Best
I finished this book for one reason only: so I could with all honesty publish a warning to people not to buy this book. The author is obviously of the "extreme liberal" persuasion, and this book takes place in a world of not-named but obvious Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld. The FBI agents behave as Gestapo-Nazis, The President is a dumb-hick from Texas with the Vice-President puppet master, both the VP and Secretary of State give orders to the FBI, telling them to make up stories that would be easily discovered as lies, Delta crosses over to Chechnya to shoot a Hellfire at a car with a woman and two children inside, the traitor FBI agent kills a reporter for the NY Times, sneers that he reads the Post, then listens to Rush Limbaugh on the car radio, and there are lines like "she lives near an army base in order to have ready access to Methamphetamine..."

To the author: waterboarding simulates drowning, you do not actually drown the person: no water gets in the lungs. The police, FBI and/or US Marshalls would be much better at finding someone domestically then Delta, Delta's expertise is hostage rescue-extraction and special operations (read Beckwith's book, for a start, or The Commandos by Waller). And although I am sure there are some on the fringe, the vast majority of churches do not have snakes in their services! I suggest before you write your next thriller, spend some time on patrol with the police in your city; you will find over-worked but dedicated public servants, not thugs. You sleep well at night because these public servants are protecting you.

Potential Readers: Save your money; there are myriad thrillers out there that respect if not honor our brave police, FBI, and military.

There, I am done: this book goes in the trash. I wish I could have my money and time back.

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From the head writer at The Onion A.V. Club, a painfully funny memoir as seen through the sturdy prism of pop culture—for fans of Chuck Klosterman and Augusten Burroughs. 

As  a  child  and  teenager,  Nathan  Rabin  viewed  pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape. As an adult, pop culture became his life. For more than a decade he’s served as head writer for The Onion A.V. Club, and here, by way of music, books, films, and television, he shares his too-strange-for-fiction life story.

Using a specific book, song, album, film, or television show as a springboard to discuss a period in his life, Rabin recounts his Dickensian upbringing with biting wit and brutal, perhaps unwise candor. Throughout a traumatic childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, Rabin reveals that not only did pop culture shape and mold him, it helped save him from suicidal depression, institu- tionalization, and parental abandonment. Perhaps the most entertaining book ever written about depression and sweet, sweet sexual humiliation, The Big Rewind is also an emotional tale of a motherless child’s search for family and acceptance and a darkly comic valentine to Rabin’s irascible, lovable, hard-luck dad.

Featuring unexpected cameos by Billy Bob Thornton, a vomiting Topher Grace, and some dude named Barack Obama, The Big Rewind chronicles the surreal journey of Rabin’s life, and its intersection with the dizzying, maddening, wonderful world of entertainment.

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• Published on: 2009-07-07
• Released on: 2009-07-07
• Original language: English
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Rabin, a writer for the Onion's arts section, endured a dysfunctional childhood marked by parental abandonment, a stint in a mental hospital and an adolescence spent in a group home and a drug-ridden co-op house. And in this memoir, he views his life through the blurry lens of formative cultural influences. His episodic narrative recounts a sarcastic, insecure youth's gonzo misadventures with a cast of freaks, misfits and aloof or cruelly promiscuous girlfriends, then moves on to adult run-ins with air-sick celebrities, bored prostitutes and nutty Hollywood types. Convinced that cultural tastes reveal the soul, like a My Space page, Rabin opens each chapter with an earnest (though rarely incisive) appreciation of some favorite in a personal canon that ranges from rap albums to The Great Gatsby, and intrusively peppers his writing with pop culture references. There are, alas, limits to the evocative power of pop culture references, and the author's arcane allusions—Susanne and Jack's relationship was like a gender-switched version of the star-crossed duo in the Stephen Malkmus song 'Jenny and the Ess-Dog' —test them. Rabin's vigorous, smart-assed prose sometimes brings the sideshow vividly to life, but it's marred by self-conscious fanboyism and labored jokiness. (July)
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“[The Big Rewind is] written with [Rabin’s] trademark humor, quirkiness and self-deprecation. It’s an homage to pop culture." —USA Today

“Nathan Rabin had the kind of childhood that aspiring memoirists dream of.” —TimeOut New York

“With his uncanny grasp of cultural zeitgeist, Rabin could unseat Chuck Klosterman as the slacker generation’s vital critical voice.” —Heeb Magazine

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"Nathan Rabin's life reads like a fanboy's collision with Dostoyevsky. This hilarious, sad, truthful memoir is compulsively readable -- a page-turning soap opera about a child abandoned by his mother; loved by his wise, thrice-divorced, painfully crippled, often unemployed father; shuttled through foster homes and asylums; and yet with an invincible sense of humor that led him to contribute briefly to the original Onion in Madison, then leave over 'creative differences,' then rejoin the paper as a film critic for its A.V. Club for the last decade, and star on an AMC program named Movie Club with John Ridley with an optimistic dreamer as his producer and fellow critics who ranged from a darkly Marxist intellectual to a skinny blonde who used the word 'Shakespeare' as a condemnation, while surviving a romantic relationship with 'O,' a sadomasochistic intellectual grad student whose hyperactive sex life only occasionally involved him. He chronicles his adventures with a cross between utter shamelessness and painful honesty, and he is very funny."-- Roger Ebert

"I'm not as interested in anything as much as Nathan Rabin is interested in everything."-- Chuck Klosterman

"Rabin writes like the secret love child of Woody Allen and Lester Bangs: honest, erudite, neurotically manic, and very funny."-- Neal Pollack

"The Big Rewind is heartbreaking and hilarious. Based on the incidents in this book, it's amazing Nathan Rabin is still alive, much less one of the sharpest pop culture critics around. I just hope he's learned his lesson about dating loonball polyamorists."-- Rich Dahm, co-executive producer of The Colbert Report

"Nathan's memoir is your memoir is my memoir. You will experience moments of sour disagreement, followed by, 'Oh wow, me too!' A book that reads like a conversation. Terrific."-- Patton Oswalt

"Rabin begins each chapter dissecting some piece of pop ephemera and then shows how this work of film, music, or literature relates directly to a messed-up period of his life. Ultimately, underneath all of the quirky structure, mewling apathy, and caustic wit, Rabin tells a sweet tale of finding one's place in life. That he ends up using his love of popular driftwood as a catalyst for his reviewing career (and gets to meet celebrities!) is the frosting on the cake. Give this to fans of The Catcher in the Rye and Reservoir Dogs." -- Booklist

"[Rabin] has packed [The Big Rewind], like a cannon, full of caustic wit and bruised feelings. The result is a lo-fi, sometimes crude book that is nonetheless more effective (and affecting) than it has any right to be."-- The New York Times

"An edgy and funny memoir about a childhood that wasn't so amusing."-- The Boston Globe

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Confessions Of A Culture Vulture
By Bill Slocum
[A Vine Review - Thanks, Amazon!]

Nathan Rabin may be a first-time author, but I know him well from reading his A.V. Club articles and the enormous discussion threads they spawn. His discursive, caustic, and quite funny writing style has a gift for transforming a long and pointless afternoon into something longer and just as pointless, only far more entertaining.

As a critic of today, Rabin's the kind of guy who can break anything down into popular entertainment references, so it almost makes sense that when he decided to tell the story of his life, he organized it into chapters referencing famous books, records, and films.

His stay as a boy in a mental institution? He's reminded of the book "Girl, Interrupted" - and careful to point out, not the later film adaptation.

Various relationships with girls are prompted with chapters spotlighting Rabin's takes on Rod Stewart and Jean-Luc Godard. Living in a hippie co-op in Madison, Wisconsin prompts a reference to "Freaks", the Tod Browning cult film. "My fellow co-opers were the stuff of Lou Reed songs," he explains.

Movies became for Rabin a channel of expression and a shelter from the storm: "Movies afforded the rewards of human interaction with none of the terrifying hazards of actual human contact," he writes. Real life has teeth, and Rabin often felt its bite.

I've seen this done before with songs alone, which do lend themselves to this kind of subjective treatment. Movies don't, and Rabin struggles to find the same connecting strands that come more easily from a song like "Maggie May". When Rabin uses "Apocalypse Now" as a basis for comparing a mildly domineering authority figure in Rabin's life to the terrifyingly unhinged Col. Kurtz from the film, it's a sign he's really pushing for significance.

More problematically, not every episode he writes about is as interesting to us as it is to him. There's three chapters alone on Rabin's brief, unsuccessful attempt at being a movie critic on TV, something he writes about with the minute, gory precision of the Starr Report.

When something does click, though, it often clicks hard, like his meeting the woman who gave birth to him, then left him alone for 20 years. When he meets her again, he finds her utterly unconcerned about the emotional damage she has left, and nutty enough for Rabin to realize he's grateful to have escaped her notice.

"Every Mother's Day I'm struck with an urge to send Biological Mother a card but I've yet to find one with a message like 'To a Mother Who's Disappointed Me in Every Conceivable Way.'"

"The Big Rewind" is hardly a disappointment of that order. It's structurally deficient, yes, but otherwise often engaging enough to read through quickly and wonder, if this was another A.V. Club posting, what the discussion thread would look like.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
El Pollo Loco's Revenge
By Nick
What do El Pollo Loco, mental institutions, Siskel & Ebert, crazy moms in sweat pants, awesome music, long lists using commas instead of semicolons, and being Jewish have in common?

Nathan Rabin's The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture.

I should stop there, but I won't. I don't read a lot of autobiographies since they're usually stuffy "look at what an amazing person I turned out to be, one that you envy and now live vicariously through, since you just spent $30 to read about me" memoirs by people that I don't care about.

I don't care about Nathan Rabin, either -- actually, we're basically best friends now, just like Nathan and Topher Grace -- but this book made me laugh so hard a few times that I had to wipe tears from my cheeks. The guy's had an amazingly sad and entertaining life. He writes about it in a honest and humorously self-depreciating manner that makes it easy to relate to his life and his personal failures and accomplishments, but mostly his failures.

I enjoyed that he ties each chapter of his life (figuratively and literally) in with a song/album and/or a classic book or movie. Being the same age as the author, I found myself suddenly being sucked back to various parts of my youth and remembering exactly what it felt like to be alive when, for example, Nirvana was first blowing up and ending abruptly or watching MTV as NWA helped rap start to veer away from raps about gold chains and women to raps about guns, drugs, and women...and gold chains.

The honesty and bluntness of Nathan Rabin's autobiography impressed me incredibly. There were times when I blushed, because at points I felt like I was reading stories from my own embarrassing encounters with women and other social situations. Some of the things he decided to include about his personal life were both touching and largely a lot more information than I needed to know about a stranger; in a very sincere way it helped to make his story one that's easy to find solace in as a recovering geek/nerd/self-conscious person. I'm not sure if that's the result he wanted or not.

I honestly didn't want to put the book down, but sleep and various tasks involving the use of both my hands made that impossible. Buy it. Seriously.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A Heartwarming Tale of triumph over adversity (TM)
By Kristine Lofgren
I didn't know anything about Nathan Rabin prior to picking up this book, and although I enjoy The Onion, I hadn't read anything that he had written there. But I love pop-culture, and I nabbed this book up based on the words "The Onion" and "Pop-culture" from the book's description. That's how easily swayed I am.

Having finished this book, I can safely say that now I know oodles about Nathan Rabin. Most importantly: that Rabin is a witty, engaging and highly amusing story-teller (and that he rarely agrees with the Oscars). From the first page, this book had me hooked. Weaving a story from Rabin's turbulent youth, through the triumphant bonding with his father over Chipotle coupons and landing firmly in an Ebert and Roeper audition, (all tied up a with pop-culture touchstone bow) I couldn't put it down.

This book is dark, sarcastic and incredibly, intelligently funny. It is safe to say that anyone who enjoys The Onion, grew up with Nirvana or simply likes their humor dark, whether you know Nathan Rabin or not, will love this book.

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In a masterful narrative, historian and biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West.

In 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History, the reader is plunged into the heart of that crucial year as Lincoln faced enormous challenges. The Civil War was far from being won: as the year began, Lincoln had yet to appoint Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who would finally implement the bloody strategy and dramatic campaigns that would bring victory.

At the same time, with the North sick of the war, Lincoln was facing a reelection battle in which hundreds of thousands of "Peace Democrats" were ready to start negotiations that could leave the Confederacy as a separate American nation, free to continue the practice of slavery. In his personal life, he had to deal with the erratic behavior of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and both Lincolns were haunted by the sudden death, two years before, of their beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie.

1864 is the story of Lincoln's struggle with all this -- the war on the battlefields and a political scene in which his own secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was working against him in an effort to become the Republican candidate himself. The North was shocked by such events as Grant's attack at Cold Harbor, during which seven thousand Union soldiers were killed in twenty minutes, and the Battle of the Crater, where three thousand Union men died in a bungled attempt to blow up Confederate trenches. The year became so bleak that on August 23, Lincoln wrote in a memorandum, "This morning, as for several days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be reelected." But, with the increasing success of his generals, and a majority of the American public ready to place its faith in him, Lincoln and the nation ended 1864 with the close of the war in sight and slavery on the verge of extinction.

1864 presents the man who not only saved the nation, but also, despite the turmoil of the war and political infighting, set the stage for westward expansion through the Homestead Act, the railroads, and the Act to Encourage Immigration.

As 1864 ends and Lincoln, reelected, is planning to heal the nation, John Wilkes Booth, whose stalking of Lincoln through 1864 is one of this book's suspenseful subplots, is a few weeks away from killing him.

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• Brand: Brand: Simon n Schuster
• Published on: 2009-02-03
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
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Starred Review. Critically acclaimed historian Flood (Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War) provides a brilliant, compelling account of Lincoln's dramatic final full year of life-a year in which the war finally turned in the Union's favor and Lincoln faced a tough battle for re-election. After Union defeats at the Battle of Cold Harbor and the siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Jubal Early came within five miles of Washington, D.C., before he was beaten back; General Sherman's September victory at Atlanta followed, with his bloody march to the sea. At the same time, Lincoln found himself running against his own secretary of the treasury, Salmon Chase, for the Republican nomination, and then against the Democrat (and general) George B. McClellan for the presidency. Lincoln won by a narrow popular majority, but a significant electoral majority. At the close of 1864, as Lincoln celebrated both his re-election and the coming end of the war, John Wilkes Booth laid down an ambitious plan for kidnapping that soon evolved into a map for murder. Combining a novelist's flair with the authority and deep knowledge of a scholar, Flood artfully integrates this complex web of storylines. 16 pages of b&w photos, maps.
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Flood follows Abraham Lincoln’s fourth year as president, ranging across matters that arose in his office, in person, or on paper, whether of minor or major importance. Securing his readers’ engagement with a detailed account of business Lincoln conducted on January 1, 1864, Flood depicts for them the appearance of Lincoln’s workplace, to which access was extraordinarily easy to obtain. Petitioners and their pleas—for government posts, for stays of execution, for an autograph—parade through Flood’s chronicle, as do bringers of tidings connected with the two biggest things on Lincoln’s mind during 1864: winning reelection and winning the Civil War. Flood’s overall effect shows how contingent each was: he recounts Lincoln’s hardheaded electioneering actions—involving money, political favors, and sidetracking rivals such as Salmon Chase—alongside Lincoln’s exercise of his commander-in-chief role. Neither objective was entirely separable, and there’s a sophistication in Flood’s portrayal that shows how Lincoln’s actions to further one furthered the other, as in his furlough of Union soldiers to vote for him. Flood’s high-quality historical narrative will capture the Civil War readership. --Gilbert Taylor

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"The book is as adept at analyzing Lincoln's choices as at showing what they meant to his ravaged nation." ---The New York Times

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Lincoln at the gates of history
By W. P. Ireland
A great book about a great president. Good history that told a good story

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An Epic Year
By Christian Schlect
A narrative--aimed at the general reader--of the year that clinched Abraham Lincoln's place in history.

Charles Bracelen Flood writes within the known facts of 1864 but with an eye to the interesting tale; he is a storyteller, not a dry academic expert. While an admirer of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Flood still is balanced in his approach to this very human leader.

The book is quite good at showing the multitude of political, war, and social obligations/decisions that bombarded Mr. Lincoln in a year that might have seen victory tipped either way in terms of both military and political battlefields. Intense presidential election-year infighting is nicely described, while some of the key military incidents of the year are highlighted, such as the Early's bold raid on the Capital, the Union's disaster at the Crater, Sheridan's ride from Winchester, and Sherman's March to the Sea.

As Wellington said after the battle of Waterloo, "It was a close run thing."

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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History is absorbing read of a crucial year in American History and the Civil War
By C. M Mills
1864 was a rollercoaster year for America and the 16th President of the United States.During this crucial year Abraham Lincoln would ride a wild roller coaster taking him and the nation to the valley of despair as dreadful death raised his ugly head above the war torn land. It was also a year in which Lincoln and the Union would ascend the Matterhorn of Victory.
In this brilliantly authored work the eminent Civil War historian Charles Bracelen Flood describes in vivid prose the events of Lincoln's last full year of life and the last full year of the Civil War.
As the year began there was nothing but disaster for President Lincoln. Consider:
1. Grant's Overland Campaign had led to massive losses in savage fighting in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and during the long trench warfare/siege aloong the Richomon-Petersburg line.
2. Jubal Early made a spectacular raid on his Union enemies in Washington. Lincoln himself came under fire at Fort Stevens. Though the CSA forces retreated this raid dealt havoc with Union morale.
3. The Union lost heavily in the Crater Battle of July 30th which was demoralizing to Lincoln's morale and men.
4. Lincoln faced bitter opposition from Copperheads and Radical Republicans. Many of these political foes wanted the war to end in negotiation with the South. Many did not favor emancipation and opposed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution granting freedom to chattel slaves.
5. The North was growing war weary and ready for peace. Riots against the draft and the long roll of dead and wounded were sapping at the peoples will to continue the sanguinary conflict.
And then...it all became much better for the North and beleagured President Lincoln who as late as August believed he would lose the presidency during the fall election against his Democratic foe erstwhile Union General of the Potomac George Brinton McClellan.
1. Grant's Army continued to back Lee closer to Richmond as the Union forces made progress in Virginia.
2. Phil Sheridan won great victories over Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley at Winchester and Cedar Creek.
3. Lincoln won a landslide victory over McClellan in the presidential contest.This victory ensured that the war would be continued without yielding to any Southern concessions.
4. Sherman took the city of Atlanta and began his march to the sea. The fall of Atlanta was a major blow to Southern hopes for survival.
Flood has the ability to write incisive prose which make the scenes and personalities of this year of 1864 live in the mind of the reader. It is also noteworthy that throughout the account he quotes extensively from persons who lived through the events being described. Flood has written novels and his works reflect the ability to keep your attention. The book has been well researched and is well illustrated.
In this bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth there will be many new books published on Abraham Lincoln. This and Ronald C. White's magisterial biography of Lincoln are two which are among the best.

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In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique.

Makeshift Metropolis describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi’in, Israel—sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city.

Erudite and immensely engaging, Makeshift Metropolis is an affirmation of Rybczynski’s role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.

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Rybczynski (A Clearing in the Distance), professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a glimpse of an urban future that might very well serve as a template for cities around the world. Just as the dense and green Israeli city Modi'in mixes old and new modes of urban planning, this book integrates history and prediction in its survey of the development of the American city. A brisk look back takes us from colonial town planning through the Garden City and City Beautiful initiatives of the early 20th century that defined and delivered the distinctive aesthetic character to such cities as New York and Chicago to the big box era. He also examines how contemporary urban designers and planners are revisiting and refreshing older urban ideas, bringing gardens to a blighted Brooklyn waterfront. Rybczynski's study is kept relevant by his focus on what the past can teach us about creating the "cities we want" and "cities we need." The prose is instructive and always engaging, and the author's enthusiasm for the future of cities and his enduring love of urban settings of all kinds is evident. He not only writes about what people want from their cities, he inspires the reader to imagine the possibilities.
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So much of modern American architecture, for good or ill, derives from twentieth-century movements dubbed “city beautiful” and “the garden city” as well as the tumultuousness of highly regarded architects, from Le Corbusier to Frank Lloyd Wright. Acclaimed architecture writer Rybczynski begins with a review of nineteenth- and twentieth-century movements that produced magnificent parks and grand classical structures that continue to dominate the downtown areas of many American cities. He examines the fierce debates among architects and planners searching to balance grand design and practical use, a debate fueled by Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) and Lewis Mumford’s contrasting views on urbanism. Rybczynski goes on to examine the trend toward arcades, malls, and big-box retail stores and to critique mixed-use development projects in a variety of cities in a never-ending search to find the right mix of aesthetics and practical, user-friendly spaces in an era of scarce resources and emerging environmental issues. An engaging look at changing perspectives on urban architecture and development. --Vanessa Bush

Review
“Impressive… [Rybczynski] writes with disarming ease… Our finest architecture critic.”—Francis Morrone, Wall Street Journal

“Makeshift Metropolis is a deceptively slender distillation of some of the best thinking of one of the best thinkers about cities and urban planning. It’s a terrific meditation on the past, present, and future of cities—a critical subject now that human life, increasingly, is urban life.”—David Owen, author of Green Metropolis

“Rybczynski offers a glimpse of an urban future that might very well serve as a template for cities around the world… Instructive and always engaging… He not only writes about what people want from their cities, he inspires the reader to imagine the possibilities.”—Publishers Weekly

"Makeshift Metropolis is a wonderful book. It shows us how cities have been shaped by an unplanned dance between urban planners and the demands of ordinary consumers. Rybczynski is the ideal expositor of urban design, blessed with an abundance of inside knowledge."--Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University

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A Great Book on the Idea of American Cities
By Richard S. Dixon Jr.
This is the fifth book of Witold Rybczynski's I have read and they just keep getting better. I admire the man for his calm discussions on so many aspects of architecture and cities (I find his book on Palladio: The Perfect House, most satisfying). For the professional architect or architectural historian, much of his discussions might seem basic stuff, but I find them instructive, clear and insightful. For anyone interested in the history of buildings in America, the idea of city life in Western Culture or even in the idea of what "home" means (forget Bill Bryson's book, At Home, Rybcynski's 1980s book on Home far surpasses that one), this is the author for you. His writing is consistently outstanding: clear, precise and tempered with the wisdom gained over many years of observing the subjects he discusses.

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Great review of the history of city planning in the US
By G. Petri
I found this book to be well organized and concise. As an architect that was in school during the city planning conversations of the 1960s, reading Makeshift Metropolis now has been a good review and an opportunity to reassess some of the notions that were prevalent then. Things have clearly evolved. Planning is more like being engaged in the trenches than organizing the pieces on a game board. Witold has done it again, bringing accessible understanding of a complicated issue to anyone who is interested in learning.

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Excellent comparisons on planning ideas
By Leon Czikowsky
This book presents the emergence of ideas regarding city planning and how they were refined over time. Present planning concepts favor more use of private sector entrepreneurism than many past planning theories considered.

Lewis Mumford is noted by the author as having ideas of regional planning that still resonate as he theorized the coming reality of sprawl spreading to exurbs. Jane Jacobs is noted as correctly foreseeing urban neighborhood vitality, but not with a steady middle class as Jacobs saw, but with wealthier results and more mobile newcomers. Frank Lloyd Wright correctly forecast urban decentralization. All together, these and others' planning ideas helped shape applicable theories today.

The U.S. has undergone relatively unplanned development, which is something Jacobs woud defend. Many of the primary factors determining how development occurs are decided by private developers rather than a few city planners. Planners strive to set and meet general goals of keeping cities livable and economically viable, safe from crime, diverse, and environmentally responsible. Economic decisions determine what people are willing to purchase. This had led to clashes between those desiring consistent urban design and those who want unique architectural designs. A major clash develops when the desires of what people wish to purchase may not be in the best interest for others, or the best for the environment.

Public parks are unique to North America. Most European cities, by contrast, have areas for visual viewing of gardens, flowers, and tended plants.

The public sector has often sought to work in conjunction with the private sector. An example of this is the Brooklyn Bridge Park where piers, parks, and housing are simultaneously under construction.

Much of current planning evolved from past ideas. Charles Mulford Robinson supported keeing cities looking nice visually. He favored cities adorned with trees, public art, clean streets, well lit streets, limited outdoor advertising, and height limits on buildings.

Ebenezer Howard led a movement that created Garden Cities. There are parks near cities. Many continue existing.

Le Corbusier called for tall buildings designed for practical use. He also favored bringing parks and nature close to cities. He argued for keeping apart the different centers of activities, such as shopping areas, main government buildings, sports stadiums, cultural and arts centers, etc. Zoning would plan this accordingly.

Jane Jacobs was very critical of urban renewal. She argued that residents and not bureaucrats should determine what residents wanted. She also believed cities should not be art but should concentrate on allowing people to live their lives,

Lewis Mumford agreed with Jacobs on her views against urban renewal plans but disagreed with her on her criticisms of planning for urban parks. Mumford believed good architecture and design were worthy goals while Jacobs did not see these as proper planning laws,

Patrick Geddes supported Howard's plans for parks and urged for additional conservation and ecological preservation. He was active in getting Scotland more involved in establishing parks and helping the local biology. Le Corbusier took favorable note of the efforts of Geddes.

Frank Lloyd Wright realized that automobiles had taken away the need for a city with a concentrated center. His predictions of decentralization were confirmed with the growth of suburbs. His prediction that cities would is wrong as cities have found ways to revitalize.

The Garden City movement of Ebenezer Howard resonates even thought none have been created since the 1930s. This is because many of those that were created remain and continue to be popular.

Herbert Gans observed that many people have various ideas on how their city should develop. We live in an entrepreneurial economic system. Martin Meyerson noted that there should be public support for planning goals in order for them to be enacted.

William Manning prepared a master plan for Harrisburg. It turned a swamp into a lake and created parks, gardens, and a pedestrian bridge. His Riverfront Park remains an attraction.

The Burtham and Bennett master plan for Chicago led to a lakefront park. Much of the rest of their plans did not materialize. Their ideas did influence the actions of planners and developers.

San Francisco created Fisherman's Wharf to attract tourism. It was not an urban renewal plan. Similarly, private developer James Rouse renovated Quincy Market in Boston as an attraction for tourists and well as nearby residents. Other commercial developments that attract tourists include Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco, South Street Seaport in New York, Navy Pier in Chicago, and Bayside Marketplace in Miami.

Some new buildings are so uniquely designed that they are affected by the Bibao Effect. This means they are immediately declared an iconic building. This is also called the Bilbao Anomaly since this rarely happens,

Penn's Landing in Philadelphia took decades to develop. Its large size required large and stable investors who could weather market cycles. There was a master plan with a grand plan the entire areas. What may have made more sense would have been to develop it in smaller sections. By comparison, the Brooklyn Bridge Park had clear public good and private development goals that are materializing.

The author notes public participation is important when developing large urban projects.

Suburban growth has happened more quickly than urban growth in most regions except for in seven areas where the cities outgrew their suburbs, The seven cities that did this are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, and Norfolk.

Most downtowns are about four square miles and are walkable by 20 minutes from the downtown center to its edge. It is the attraction of shopping on foot that keeps downtowns competitive with suburban malls. Thus, downtowns can't expand in size. 90% of people who live downtown are single. Downtown residents are 0,3% of the population.

Most urban development occurs piecemeal. The author notes that marketplace decisions are not always the most accurate means to decide development. Still, the larger number of people involved in these decisions likely make their plans better than those of a few city planners. The author notes historical information should not be a deciding factor but that knowledge of past experiences and outcomes can help guide current actions.

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