The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession by Virginia Scott Jenkins

The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession

Virginia Scott Jenkins

246 pages first pub 1994 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obs...

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