Book Review: A new history of Boston contends that the city declined as it yoked its interests to those of slave states
What ever happened to Boston? “The pathetic old city is now feeding on its own smugness, snobbery and wilted traditions,” Elizabeth Hardwick tartly observed in a famous put-down of the “whimsical stagnation of Boston” published in Harper’s magazine in 1959.
Everyone is always counting Boston out, ridiculing the city’s musty pretensions to being the “Hub of the Solar System” or the “Athens of America.” Well over a century ago, the nation’s center of gravity...
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