A Dose of Civic Realism

Some of the bestselling nonfiction books published in 1970 include David Reuben’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, Better Homes and Gardens’s book on cooking fondue, and a dense tome on urban affairs called The Unheavenly City by a then-obscure Harvard professor named Edward Banfield.