Speed Reads

By Eleanor Young Eleanor Young Eleanor Young 2005-08-31T00:00:00

Anything subtitled A Global History raises expectations of a serious tome, but Joel Kotkin’s exposition of the city is a slim volume, bulked up with pages of notes and chronology.

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