num_pages: 314
description: “Ted Steinberg proves once again that he is a master storyteller as well as our foremost environmental historian.”―Mike Davis The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. American Green , Ted Steinberg's witty exposé of this bizarre phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers.
language: English
title: American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
titlecomplete: American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
genres: Nature, History, Environment, Reference, Gardening, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 164
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company