Kathy Knapp

University of Connecticut

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Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, author of the forthcoming book American Unexceptionalism: The Everyman and The Suburban Novel After 9/11

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For more than 50 years, Americans were drawn to the suburbs, with their sylvan promises of easy living.

The Decline of Suburbia

For more than 50 years, Americans were drawn to the suburbs, with their sylvan promises of easy living.

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