City Lit: A Fruitful Searc

A book review of Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modem Brooklyn, by Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias, University of Iowa Press, 1999, 512 pages, $32.95.

City Lit: Reformulaic

A book review of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, by Frederick M. Hess, Brookings Institution Press, 1999, 228 pages, $39.95.

City Lit: Planet Wort

A book review of Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations, By Richard C. Longworth, Contemporary Books, 1998, 293 pages, $24.95.

City Lit: Import Exploit

A book review of Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor, by Peter Kwong, The New Press, 1998, 273 pages, $24.

City Lit: Passive Progressive

A book review of Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy, by Ross Gittel and Avis Vidal, Sage Publications, 1998, 196 pages, $23.95.

City Lit: Women’s Works

A book review of Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives, edited by Patricia Bell-Scott with Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Henry Holt, 1998, 231 pages, $22.