God's Own Junkyard

God's Own Junkyard' is a muckraking book. Peter Blake sets the pace of his direct and uncompromising attack, by commenting 'This book is...written in fury, though not, I trust, in blind fury. It is a deliberate attack upon all of those who have been befouled a large portion of this country for private gain, and are engaged in befouling the rest. Some of these latter-day vandals are well organized and well financed - such as the billboard industry whose profitable creations along our highways have been implicated in a staggering number of car accidents. Some are 'little people' - tradesman and shopkeepers trying to make a modest living - people without ties to the landscape or townscape in which they live, people whose eyes have lost the art of seeing. And still others are all the rest of us - all of us who no longer care, or no longer care enough."
In four brilliant and devastating covers, Peter Blake sets forth the case against the collusion of politics, business, and public indifference which is deprecating the American landscape and in five additional chapters masterfully documents in 157 pictures the evidence supporting his contention that the townscapes, landscapes, roadscapes, carscapes, and skyscapes of America are being laid waste by venality, vulgarity, and general, if not systematic, 'uglification.