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<br> Absorbing. --The New Yorker<br><p><br> The most important current book on New York. --New York Post<br><p><br> Leaves the reader deeply informed.... The story of Brooklyn's gentrification needed to be written, and Osman does it well. --Times Literary Supplement<p><br> Insightful.... An exceptionally well-researched book that will retain validity for years to come. --Library Journal<br><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 shows Brooklynites fighting each other for decades. Did anybody win? We can see now, decades later, how intellectually fruitful this fight has been, how it has 'blossomed into a postindustrial slow growth movement' that is still growing. --Marshall Berman, author of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air<br><p><br> Finally we have a history of gentrification that isn't primarily an exercise in identifying good guys and bad guys. And what a history it is! In this superb study, Suleiman Osman gives us a highly readable and well balanced account of the complex forces at work in Brownstone Brooklyn in the 1960s and 70s, a pivotal era for America and its cities. By looking closely at one small part of the urban landscape, Osman has been able to give us one of the most satisfying accounts to date of some of the fundamental shifts in American life in an era when the industrial econom

<br>Winner of the Hornblower Award of the New York Society Library<br><p><br> Absorbing. --The New Yorker<br><p><br> The most important current book on New York. --New York Post<br><p><br> Leaves the reader deeply informed.... The story of Brooklyn's gentrification needed to be written, and Osman does it well. --Times Literary Supplement<p><br> Insightful.... An exceptionally well-researched book that will retain validity for years to come. --Library Journal<br><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 shows Brooklynites fighting each other for decades. Did anybody win? We can see now, decades later, how intellectually fruitful this fight has been, how it has 'blossomed into a postindustrial slow growth movement' that is still growing. --Marshall Berman, author of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air<br><p><br> Finally we have a history of gentrification that isn't primarily an exercise in identifying good guys and bad guys. And what a history it is! In this superb study, Suleiman Osman gives us a highly readable and well balanced account of the complex forces at work in Brownstone Brooklyn in the 1960s and 70s, a pivotal era for America and its cities. By looking closely at one small part of the urban landscape, Osman has been able to give us one of the most satisfying accounts to date of some of the

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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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