"Recommended reading for trivia buffs—or for anyone who has ever been assigned a paper on the subject of 'food' or the 'history of a product'—this is an amusing account that fails to live up to its grander ambitions."
Historian Jenkins (Lawn: A History of an American Obsession, not reviewed) serves up a helping of American history told from an unusual perspective.
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