The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Deirdre Mask

336 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside. --Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addres...

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