Books by Carl Abbott

Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning.

?This is a brilliantly conceived, extremely thorough, and eminently satisfying piece of historical scholarship that successfully blends distinctive approaches--economic growth and the role of ideas--into the history of middle western cities. ... Particularly valuable is his closing chapter, which sorts out and analyzes the many strains of thought that made up the booster intellectual tradition; his examination of its relationship to the growth of the statistical method in the study of society is especially original.?-Wisconsin Magazine of History

Written for a mature audience with an interest in music, history and mystery, this historical novel investigates the subtleties of love, guilt and forgiveness, ambition and ego, the rewards of a personal adventure, the career of the real-life de Pachmann, and Europe on the verge of another world war.

This volume details the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905.