At some point between 1915 and 1920 America became an urban nation, and promptly began the process of becoming a suburban one. Spiro Agnew's life has paralleled the development of America in the past fifty-odd years. His social, professional, and political development all took place in a homogeneous suburb and political subdivision. Spiro Agnew's famous instinctive early response to urban disorders was the same as that of his suburban constituency,...