American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
ISBN-13:
9780393060843
ISBN-10:
0393060845
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Ted Steinberg
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9780393060843
ISBN-10:
0393060845
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Ted Steinberg
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
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American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn (ISBN-13: 9780393060843 and ISBN-10: 0393060845), written by authors
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Americans are locked in a love-hate relationship with their lawns, and Ted Steinberg tells you why.
The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading "crops," outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. American Green, Ted Steinberg's witty exposé of this sometimes bizarre phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown—just miles from where Steinberg grew up—to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers. For half a century, Americans have been on a quest for the greenest, weed-free, ultra-trim turf imaginable. But perfection has its costs. Blending muckraking journalism and social history, Steinberg looks at both the lighter and the darker side of the all-American landscape, from mower accidents and pesticide poisonings to lawn-mower racing and the man so addicted to perfection that he re-created Augusta's 12th hole in his backyard. 40 illustrations.
The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. Today the lawn is one of America's leading "crops," outstripping cotton in acres by a factor of two. American Green, Ted Steinberg's witty exposé of this sometimes bizarre phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown—just miles from where Steinberg grew up—to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers. For half a century, Americans have been on a quest for the greenest, weed-free, ultra-trim turf imaginable. But perfection has its costs. Blending muckraking journalism and social history, Steinberg looks at both the lighter and the darker side of the all-American landscape, from mower accidents and pesticide poisonings to lawn-mower racing and the man so addicted to perfection that he re-created Augusta's 12th hole in his backyard. 40 illustrations.
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