Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town , by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Henry Holt, 342 pages, $25.
The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town , by Andrew Ross. Ballantine Books, 352 pages, $26.
Granted: Living in New York breeds a peculiar kind of Read More
It’s been years since there were so few Jews in paradise.
Jewish enrollment at Princeton University–site of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise –has dropped by 40 percent in the last 15 years. According to The Daily Princetonian , the campus newspaper, Jewish students now make up about 10 percent of the freshmen class. Read More
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century , by Witold Rybczynski. Scribner, 480 pages, $28.
Plagued by political infighting and haphazard design, the chronically delayed Hudson River Park is a reminder that a great park requires more than a strip of open land. Frederick Law Olmsted, the 19th-century Read More
