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Paperback Boston: Persons and Places Book

ISBN: 1508494207

ISBN13: 9781508494201

Boston: Persons and Places

We explore the place and the persons who gave Boston its life. Who? Where? When? and Why? are the questions to be answered either as a visitor or long time resident. In no other place in the United States is history more ever present underfoot yet encased in the antiquarian past that obscures its meaning in the evolution of the city and for the present. We explore the physical manifestations that remain of the history as well as the persons and their ideas in each era that created that history. Founded to be a refuge for a holy people, Bostonians still today retain their commitment to things of the mind and spirit. In commitment to an austere higher level of being, they have risen to achieve idealistic reforms that have led their country and even the world. Initially a uniquely homogeneous place, its native Yankees have been reluctant to open its gates to strangers and retreated into their bastions of privilege. Finally exhausted by interethnic warfare and more open to differences, there is renewal while still retaining both the idealism and the creativity that together bode well for the future.

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