Ted Landphair

o many, New York City, that colossus of roads, bridges, skyscrapers, and humanity, is America. From its pastoral beginnings, this city grew to encompass dozy villages and working farms, úrban grandeur and surburban sprawl. Indeed, New York-big, boastful, materialistic, and multicultural since its...

FOREWORDChicago, city of immigrants from every nation, the city of the big shoulders, is still "stormy, husky, brawling," as poet Carl Sandburg extolled it, still rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. This boisterous, boastful, teeming, yet remarkably well-scrubbed prairie city is still king...

FOREWORD New England is America's most defined region. There can be lively debate about what constitutes the West or the South or the Mid-West. But there is no doubt about the six historic states—Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont—that make up New...

ill',; lii-iijaiB.u-:'!.' -liif To MANY PEOPLE, NEW YORK, THAT COLOSSUS OF ROADS, bridges, skyscrapers, and iiumanity, is America. From its pastoral beginnings, this city grew to encompass dozy villages and working farms, urban grandeur, and suburban sprawl. New York anticipated the America of...