Jenkins, Virginia Scott

The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession

Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Third printing. Paperback. 9 by 6 inches; 228 by 152 mm. x, 246 pages. Softcover in fine condition. Jenkins, a university historian, explores factors--including garden clubs, the U.S. Golf Association, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the national lawn care industry--that led the American middle class to spend great time, money and labor on a practically and ecologically suspect landscape design. Includes 49 pages of notes and an eight-page index. Black-and-white photographs and other illustrations. Item #105
ISBN: 1560984066

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