The FUTURE ONCE HAPPENED HERE
Fred Siegel loves cities but hates what has happened to them since the 1960s. Overreaching  economic policies have strangled businesses and destroyed jobs. Libertine social philosophies have allowed  public order to disappear. Racial antagonisms have corroded a sense of common culture. Siegel--a New  Yorker with New Democrat politics--makes a strong case for why cities have declined, yet his book is not  entirely gloomy. He believes that after three decades of failed public policy, America's urban centers may  finally be headed toward a revival. An invigorating piece of social and political analysis,The Future  Once Happened Hereis the best book on U.S. cities to come along in years.