Mayors of Boston
Author: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thomas M. Menino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0544302494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revealing memoir by Boston's beloved five-term mayor, explaining the power behind Boston's success and lessons for the Washington power brokers
Author: Mass State Street Trust Company (Boston
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Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9781371377458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gerard O'Neill
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307405362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures: Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the pugilistic Rascal King, Michael Curley; the hectored Kevin White who tried to hold the city together during the busing crisis; and Ray Flynn, the Southie charmer who was truly the last hurrah for Irish-American politics in the city. For almost a century, the Irish dominated Boston politics with their own unique, clannish brand of coercion and shaped its future for good and ill. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill takes the reader through the entire journey from the famine ships arriving in Massachusetts Bay to the wresting of power away from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the Title I wars of attrition over housing to the rending of the city over busing to the Boston of today--which somehow through it all became a modern, revitalized city, albeit with a growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.
Author: State Street Trust Company
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781437024616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781558495272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At once a fascinating narrative and a visual delight, Lost Boston brings the city's past to life. This updated edition includes a new section illustrating the latest gains and losses in the struggle to preserve Boston 's architectural heritage. With an engaging text and more than 350 seldom-seen photographs and prints, Lost Boston offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems lost long ago. An eminently readable history of the city's physical development, the book also makes an eloquent appeal for its preservation. Jane Holtz Kay traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the booming metropolis of today. In the process, she creates a family album for the city, infusing the text with the flavor and energy that makes Boston distinct. Amid the grand landmarks she finds the telling details of city life: the neon signs, bygone amusement parks, storefronts, and windows plastered with images of campaigning politicians-sights common in their time but even more meaningful in their absence today. Kay also brings to life the people who created Boston-architects like Charles Bulfinch and H. H. Richardson, landscape architect and master park-maker Frederick Law Olmsted, and such colorful political figures as Mayors John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley. The new epilogue brings Boston's story to the end of the twentieth century, showing elements of the city's architecture that were lost in recent years as well as those that were saved and others threatened as the city continues to evolve.