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Title: More art than matter.
Review: The book could have been compressed to about 1/3 of its size with no loss of content and probably become 10 times more readable. I found myself reading some pages 2 and 3 times trying to figure out what Lassiter was trying to say only to realize he was just reiterating something he had already said in a previous chapter.Wading through text such as:"The primary explanation for the rise of massive resistance can be found in the failure of electorial reapporionment to keep pace with the metropolitan growth and middle-class expansion in the region's political economy."and:"a consumerist ethos of individual meritocracy grounded in a spatial landscape of meropolitan residental segregation and postware suburban prosperity."made for very tedius reading.His love of acronyms and terms, not defined in the book, leaves me to believe that this book was written only for professional historians and/or sociologists who are already vastly familar with the terminology and settings of his topic.
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