"Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?"

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Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

— T. J. Jackson Lears