

With insight and elegance, Sugrue describes the street-by-street warfare to maintain housing values against the perceived encroachment of blacks trying desperately to escape the underbuilt and overcrowded slums.""- Choice "Praise for Princeton's previous edition: " first-rate account. "Praise for Princeton's previous edition: "A splendid book that does no less than transform our understanding of United States history after 1940.""- Labor History


"Praise for Princeton's previous edition:" disciplined historical engagement with a complex, often inglorious, past offers a compelling model for understanding how race and the Rust Belt converged to create the current impasse.""- America
