A People's History of the New Boston

By Jim Vrabel

Book Overview

Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years following World War II. By 1950 it had lost a quarter of its tax base over the previous twenty-five years, and during the 1950s it would lose residents faster than any other major city in the country. Credit for the city's turnaround since that time is often given to a select group of people, all of them men, all of them white, and most of them well off. In fact, a large group of community activists, many of them

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340761
• ISBN13: 9781625340764
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"