Main Street

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MAIN STREET
THE AMERICAN TOWN PAST AND PRESENT bv
Mew}) Pratl fairchild
Main Street, satirized, analyzed, and beloved, is the part of the American town that has come to symbolize the whole. This is a book about Main Street from the days of hitching posts and stage coaches to the era of transcontinental buses and air mail. But Main Street means not only the chief business blocks of American towns and cities; it means also the institutional life—the churches, schools and other community expressions—that have sprung up in America.
Few writers are so well equipped to describe Main Street civilization as Henry Pratt Fairchild, professor of sociology at New York University, who contributes the introductory essay to the sixty-one pictures in Main Street—The American Town Past and Present, for Dr. Fairchild is one who wears his learning jauntily and suffuses his subject with enthusiasm.
His introduction will tell you "many things you never knew till now" about the evolution of... Tovább

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MAIN STREET
THE AMERICAN TOWN PAST AND PRESENT bv
Mew}) Pratl fairchild
Main Street, satirized, analyzed, and beloved, is the part of the American town that has come to symbolize the whole. This is a book about Main Street from the days of hitching posts and stage coaches to the era of transcontinental buses and air mail. But Main Street means not only the chief business blocks of American towns and cities; it means also the institutional life—the churches, schools and other community expressions—that have sprung up in America.
Few writers are so well equipped to describe Main Street civilization as Henry Pratt Fairchild, professor of sociology at New York University, who contributes the introductory essay to the sixty-one pictures in Main Street—The American Town Past and Present, for Dr. Fairchild is one who wears his learning jauntily and suffuses his subject with enthusiasm.
His introduction will tell you "many things you never knew till now" about the evolution of the American town—for instance, why the American town so often is laid out in gridiron-pattern, the influence of railroads on town-buildmg, and the cultural deductions one can make from the names of our towns—and the well-chosen pictures of colonial settlements, "ghost towns," Main Streets in the deep South, Easter Parade in New York forty years ago, and scores of other aspects of our town civilization will rediscover to you familiar America.
This book gives you new eyes to see America—and new thoughts about the essential democracy of American life as it flows up and down Main Street on Saturday nights. It is in fact a book of Democratic Vistas in the true spirit of Walt Whitman.
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