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title: "A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900"
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# A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900

**Brand:** stephen puleo
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- **What is this?** A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900 by stephen puleo
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A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900

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## Customer Reviews

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    Wonderful book
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2021*

Growing up in Dorchester,the second off three children of blind parents,we spent our entire lives riding the subways of Boston. My dad worked and briefly lived on Beacon hill and my siblings and I attended the Boston Public schools from K1 right through graduating high school. Now at the age of 69 I will shamefully say that I learned more about " my city" ( which I actually left in 1995) after spending the first 43 years of my life in it, from this book. I have traveled every street mentioned in the book, I have " played" In every neighborhood in the book, I have passed through every transit station in the book and my grandparents, both sides, were 1st generation Irish and Italian immigrants to this great city. Everything about Boston is of much more significance to me after reading this book. This is my fifth book by Stephen Puleo and I can't wait to read my next one,Boston Italians.  Thank you so much for writing, your books are an absolute pleasure to read.

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    Ok
  

*by J***M on Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2022*

Interesting if you love Boston I imagine. Well written but not being from Boston I it felt a little long.

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    A Book so Dull
  

*by I***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2013*

I purchased this book based on the excellent reviews at Amazon (ten reviews, all five stars); thus, my expectations were high. I was disappointed. The author chooses to "bore in" on certain topics that are only tangentially related to the development of the city, for example, 38 pages on the abolitionist movement. Also, there are many digressions to discuss rather minor characters, for example, five pages on the individual who first used X-ray technology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.There are a few photographs in the book (hardcover), and they are poorly reproduced. The photos are so dark that the details are obscured. Perhaps the photographs should have been printed separately on glossy paper rather than on the pages of the text. Throughout the text, the author refers to specific locations in the city by street names. Unless one is intimately familiar with Boston, this is quite confusing. A few simple maps would have been very helpful. A specific example is the filling in of the Back Bay. Maps showing the outline of the Back Bay before the project began and showing the arrangement of the streets (named) after the project was completed would have been very instructive.

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