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Defining Suburban America ""How did a once sparsely populated region dominated by farming and fishing grow into the powerhouse of the postwar suburban American dream in just a few decades? In Making Long Island, Samuel provides a fresh read of the events that brought success and challenges to what still happens to be 'one of the most interesting and beautiful places on the planet.'"" - Joshua Ruff, Co-Executive Director, Collections & Programming, Long Island Museum ""Like a cool breeze on a hot summer day in the Hamptons, Making Long Island is a much welcomed, refreshing account of the vibrant and complicated history of Long Island. Not only does the book illuminate the island's development and shifting population over time and space, but it also reminds us that by shining light on the underbelly of the American dream, we are better equipped to reconsider and re-imagine it."" - Jennifer J. Thompson Burns, PhD., Lecturer, University at Albany, SUNY ""The result of both substantial research and stylish writing, this is a book that every resident of Long Island should read. I'd heartily recommend it to out-of-towners too, as Samuel shows not only that Long Island is a microcosm of the American story, but one of its major drivers."" - Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, CUNY Making Long Island: A History of Growth and the American Dream,"" by Lawrence R. Samuel (History Press, 192 pps., paperback, $24.99) tackles the rise, fall and rise cycles of one of the world's most famous bits of real estate in an entertaining and forthright style. -Joseph Finora, 27East

"Defining Suburban America ""How did a once sparsely populated region dominated by farming and fishing grow into the powerhouse of the postwar suburban American dream in just a few decades? In Making Long Island, Samuel provides a fresh read of the events that brought success and challenges to what still happens to be 'one of the most interesting and beautiful places on the planet.'"" -Joshua Ruff, Co-Executive Director, Collections & Programming, Long Island Museum ""Like a cool breeze on a hot summer day in the Hamptons, Making Long Island is a much welcomed, refreshing account of the vibrant and complicated history of Long Island. Not only does the book illuminate the island's development and shifting population over time and space, but it also reminds us that by shining light on the underbelly of the American dream, we are better equipped to reconsider and re-imagine it."" -Jennifer J. Thompson Burns, PhD., Lecturer, University at Albany, SUNY ""The result of both substantial research and stylish writing, this is a book that every resident of Long Island should read. I'd heartily recommend it to out-of-towners too, as Samuel shows not only that Long Island is a microcosm of the American story, but one of its major drivers."" -Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, CUNY"

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Lawrence R. Samuel is the founder of AmeriCulture, a Miami- and New York City-based consultancy dedicated to thought leadership relating to the past, present and future of American culture. He holds a PhD in American studies and an MA in English from the University of Minnesota and an MBA in marketing from the University of Georgia and was a Smithsonian Institution Fellow. His previous books include The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair (2007), New York City 1964: A Cultural History (2014), Tudor City: Manhattan's Historic Residential Enclave (2019), Dead on Arrival in Manhattan: Stories of Unnatural Demise from the Past Century (2021) and many others.

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