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(More customer reviews)This is 2008; if you've ever wondered how New Jersey arrived at the state it's in via legislation, policies, and insufficient public planning to address shifting residential and economic demographics, this book is a must read.
My only wish is that the section on the media, in general, and newspapers, in particular, had been a little more detailed. Gannett Corp. is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and its New Jersey headquarters are in Cherry Hill where it bought what had been the family-owned Camden Courier-Post (itself the result of a merger between two of Camden's once-proud daily newspapers).
This shift away from community reporting to the so-called corporate reporting that satisfies shareholders would have added to readers' understanding of how underserved they are by the Fourth Estate.
Helen-Chantal Pike, lecturer in media history, Rutgers Univeristy-New Brunswick; one-time reporter for the Asbury Park Press when it was family-owned, and author of "New Jersey: Crossroads of Commerce" (October/2008).
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New Jersey, despite being the third state to enter the Union, has only recently had a genuine statewide politics or policy agenda. Overshadowed by neighboring New York and Pennsylvania and with the strong local orientation of most of its citizens, New Jersey had little reason or ability to develop vigorous state institutions. New Jersey Politics and Government shows how this situation changed radically in the second half of the twentieth century in response to problems of education, economic development, government finance, land use, transportation, and environmental quality. New Jersey's historically weak state government has adopted a more activist posture, and its strong tradition of home rule has given way to a more cosmopolitan orientation.
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