Kevin Baker-The Big Crowd Unabridged

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Kevin Baker-The Big Crowd Unabridged

To us jaded, contemporary Americans this bit is funny because we know there are, for most of the country, no public trams in living memory and nearly everyone is forced to suffer the six-lane traffic snarls at some point, and some of us even admit to ourselves that the auto-centric way of life ruined our cities, is probably killing us all and that there really was a far less funny conspiracy to devalue light rail in favor of, as J.H. Kunstler puts it, happy motoring.

The Big Crowd features a number of moments like that, except they aren't played for laughs. The book is salted with little scenes and exchanges concerned with twentieth century trends-the Kefauver hearings, the ascent of television, the decline of American Catholicism, the commercialization of air travel, the viability of labor unions, John Wayne's wives, shipping containers, and, yes, the laying of freeways through neighborhoods-which, taken together, inject a sort of wink-wink, nudge-nudge authorial anachronistic intrusion that makes the book hard to accept as a serious historical novel.

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