I love this book. It takes you back and allows you to contextualize the American home and way of life. His comparison with Europe are helpful but I wish he made more as well as more to Asian cities (he only mentions Japan a few times). It really gives some great insight into how the American lifestyle got where it is. I am not waiting for a more recent book with similar scholarship. His review of how people viewed the home and (public/private) space in general since the nineteenth century was the most interesting aspect of the book for me.