The book offers practical strategies that significantly improve interpersonal relationships in both professional and personal settings. It emphasizes actionable techniques that can lead to positive transformations, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to enhance their communication skills and strengthen connections with others. Through relatable examples and insights, it aims to foster a more harmonious environment at work and home.
"Inverting the conventional history of American suburbanization, Tim Keogh turns the spotlight from wealth and freedom to poverty and inequality. Focusing on the archetypal Long Island communities of the postwar era, Keogh shows that a key driver of suburban development and the segregation it embodied was not housing but employment. Inequality and injustice were baked into suburban development, but housing discrimination was a secondary expression of this, not a primary cause. As a result, equity-minded suburbs that focused on housing policy rather than employment opportunities were doomed to fail. Keogh hopes to motivate more effective approaches to contemporary inequity by changing our understanding of how it took shape historically"--