Carol A. O'Connor brings to this book the perspective of a Scarsdale native. She began researching the suburb as a joint proposition to better understand herself and her neighbors and to lay the groundwork for her doctoral dissertation. Her personal motivation yielded to the overwhelming implications of her study for twentieth-century American social history. She is currently assistant professor of history at Utah State University.

• Preface 1. The Emergence of a Community Identity 2. Progressivism for the Upper-Middle Class 3. Resisting the Urban Tide 4. A Quality Education 5. Power and Powerlessness in a Nonpartisan Setting 6. The Press of National Events 7. Conservatism and Crisis 8. The Embarrassment of Riches Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B: Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Bibliographic Note Index

Carol A. O'Connor brings to this book the perspective of a Scarsdale native. She began researching the suburb as a joint proposition to better understand herself and her neighbors and to lay the groundwork for her doctoral dissertation. Her personal motivation yielded to the overwhelming implications of her study for twentieth-century American social history. She is currently assistant professor of history at Utah State University.

• Preface 1. The Emergence of a Community Identity 2. Progressivism for the Upper-Middle Class 3. Resisting the Urban Tide 4. A Quality Education 5. Power and Powerlessness in a Nonpartisan Setting 6. The Press of National Events 7. Conservatism and Crisis 8. The Embarrassment of Riches Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B: Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Bibliographic Note Index

Carol A. O'Connor brings to this book the perspective of a Scarsdale native. She began researching the suburb as a joint proposition to better understand herself and her neighbors and to lay the groundwork for her doctoral dissertation. Her personal motivation yielded to the overwhelming implications of her study for twentieth-century American social history. She is currently assistant professor of history at Utah State University.

• Preface 1. The Emergence of a Community Identity 2. Progressivism for the Upper-Middle Class 3. Resisting the Urban Tide 4. A Quality Education 5. Power and Powerlessness in a Nonpartisan Setting 6. The Press of National Events 7. Conservatism and Crisis 8. The Embarrassment of Riches Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B: Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Bibliographic Note Index