Alyssa Katz
| 4:00PM 7/07/2009
A cavalcade of books purporting to explain the roots of the housing crisis have emerged over the past few months, but Alyssa Katz's Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us stands out as the best one yet.
Beginning with Herbert Hoover's "Better Homes in America" campaign in the 1920s, Katz traces...