Captive City Rodney Baxendale in the days before FDR's

in the days before FDR's New Deal

Jane Austen's mean girls are still alive and kicking

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and how the media interprets and reports on crime

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Captive City Rodney Baxendale in the days before FDR'sExplores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when "urban" and "rural" indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a tick draws blood from its host, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson's anti urban polemics, which might have been written during any election year centuries or months