The author draws important lessons from a micro-managed urban development and reports, with humour and detail, on what residents experienced as the best and worst of times.
Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a social activist. A contributor to The Nation, the Village Voice, New York Times, and Artforum, he is the author of many books, including, most recently, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City and Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. He lives in New York.
... Entertaining and insightful. Ross is a raconteur with delicious
and often telling anecdotes.
*The New York Times*
[A] likeable and an entertaining observer of the social
ecology.
*The New Yorker*
Moving from a cogent analysis of the town to a multifaceted
consideration of the environmental implications of American
liberty, The Celebration Chronicles is a masterpiece of American
Studies scholarship.
*Amazon.com*
Our first astronaut-in-residence on Planet Disney returns with
astonishing tales of its strange life-form and customs. As an
explorer of brave new worlds, Ross is a shrewd cross between
Jonathan Swift and C. Wright Mills.
*Mike Davis*
Refreshingly unacademic ... an astute look at a notable, if in some
respects surreal, experiment in community building.
*Publishers Weekly*
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