The Suburban Crisis:

The Pursuit and Defense of the American Dream

Matthew D. Lassiter

University of Michigan

Work in Progress

Introduction: Frontiers of Innocence

Part I: Popular Culture

Chapter 1: Suburban Pathology

Chapter 2: Suburban Exceptionalism

Chapter 3: Middle-Class Panics

Chapter 4: Double Standards

Part II: Political Culture

Chapter 5: Middle Americans

Chapter 6: Class Traitors

Chapter 7: Exurban Warriors

Chapter 8: Swing Voters

Part III: Public Policies

Chapter 9: Schools

Chapter 10: Housing

Chapter 11: Sprawl

Chapter 12: Regionalism

Epilogue: Suburban Victims and Middle-Class Heroes