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<br> [Osman] has written what may well be the most important current book on New York. <br>--New York Post<br><p><br> Insightful...An exceptionally well-researched book that will retain validity for years to come. -- Library Journal<p><br> [An] absorbing study. <br>--New Yorker<p><br> An impressive new book a rich and refreshingly ambivalent account of how a new urban ideal - one riddled with contradictions - emerged in Brooklyn between the end of World War II and the late 1970s.The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, is a first-rate work of history, especially for a debut effort by a young scholar. Osman impresses with sweeping ruminations on the meanings of modernism and what he dubs the literature of gentrification while also remaining grounded in nuts-and-bolts archival research. <br>--Bookforum<br><p><br> A brilliant study of an American 'pro urban ideal, ' which opened up just after World War II, when it seemed all America was rejecting cities and their values. Suleiman Osman

An expansive cultural history... leaves the reader deeply informed. Robert A. Beauregard, Times Literary Supplement

An expansive cultural history... leaves the reader deeply informed. Robert A. Beauregard, Times Literary Supplement [Osman] has told the story with great insight and drama through an eclectic and well-selected set of historical sources and a felicitous writerly prose. Robert Self, American Historical Review

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Suleiman Osman is Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. He grew up in Brooklyn's Park Slope and now lives in Washington, D.C.

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