Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern AmericansBuilding Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City PlanningThe Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition

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Book Review| March 01 2021 Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern AmericansBuilding Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City PlanningThe Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans. By Guarneri, Julia. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2017. 330 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $30.00; e-book available.Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning. By Daniel, Julia E.Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2017. ix, 200 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $27.50; e-book, $55.00.The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition. By Rowan, Jamin Creed. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2017. 195 pp. Cloth, $47.50; e-book available. Barbara Eckstein Barbara Eckstein Barbara Eckstein has pursued matters urban and environmental in the books Sustaining New Orleans (2006) and Story and Sustainability (coedited with James Throgmorton, 2003) and in other publications and actions. She recently retired from the English department at the University of Iowa where she taught courses in environmental humanities; built, with students, faculty and public partners, peoplesweathermap.org; and was a member of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 148–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878566 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Eckstein; Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern AmericansBuilding Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City PlanningThe Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition. American Literature 1 March 2021; 93 (1): 148–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878566 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search The result of meticulous historical scholarship, Newsprint Metropolis provides a cleanly written account of the role played by major US metropolitan newspapers in the making of cities and their inhabitants from 1880 to 1930. For her case studies Julia Guarneri chooses Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Milwaukee. The interest of Guarneri’s book, uninterrupted by any urban theorizing, lies in the explication of how this making occurred and in the numerous illustrations enhancing that explication. Both the decades and the cities at the center of the argument prove well chosen. Although the book’s introduction, which provides a less than fulsome account of the diversity of Americans, their news, and newspaper options, raises some questions about how they might fare in its pages, the chapters do tell a story increasingly attuned to exactly which readers are being made as Americans by major metropolitan newspapers,... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.