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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
By Deirdre Mask
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The numbers on a house, a building, an apartment — if we don't need to know them, we hardly notice. But they do matter, and matter in ways far more complex than letter delivery and geolocation. Addresses tell stories of identity, caste, race, wealth and the shifts of power throughout human time. The Address Book is thoughtful and whimsical, startling and absorbing, a completely original historical tour and wholly entertaining.
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
"An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review
When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to en...
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