The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

by Leo Marx

$300 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition. 3 black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. vi , 392 pages. Marx's first book. A fascinating study of the tension between the traditional view of America as a rural paradise and the view of America as an urban, industrialized nation that is the envy of the world. Marx examines the works

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