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Disillusioned

Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs
  • Benjamin Herold
2024
Penguin Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Blue-print style sketch of a suburban home, with sidewalk, driveway, and garage
    Book Review

    How the Suburbs Became a Trap

    Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.
    by Caitlin Zaloom via The New Republic
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on April 18, 2024
  • Row of suburban homes.
    Book Excerpt

    White America Facing Its Ghosts

    The slow unraveling of a nation’s suburbs.
    by Benjamin Herold via Literary Hub on January 23, 2024

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A billboard advertising nice homes while hiding the dilapidated state of the homes behind it.

American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret

Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.
by Michael Waters via The Atlantic
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on November 6, 2025
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