Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alexandra Lange, a portrait-by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving-of one of America's most iconic institutions.

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for crea...