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

ISBN-13: 9781781259016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Deirdre Mask

Opis

An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.

Recenzje

Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard. A classic history of nomenclature - loaded, complex and absorbing. Simon Garfield, author Just My Type

O autorze

Deirdre Mask graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude, and attended the University of Oxford before returning to Harvard for law school, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She completed a master's in writing at the National University of Ireland. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. Originally from North Carolina, she has taught at Harvard and the London School of Economics. She lives with her husband and daughters in London.