"This book traces the surprisingly long history of chickens as part of the American cityscape and illuminates the resurgent cultural phenomenon of the backyard chicken, taking readers to nineteenth-century urban poultry shows, along a "Tour de Coops," inside zoning battles, and into religious rituals"--

Philip Levy is Professor of History at the University of South Florida and the author of The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of George Washington's Life (Virginia).