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Acknowledgments xi Preface xv I. Boston, from Winthrop to Hawthorne 1 R John Winthrop (1588–1649), from “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) 14 Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (1678) & “Meditations Divine and Moral” #53 (1867) 16 Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771) 18 Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784): “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1733) & “To The University of Cambridge, in New England” (1773) 23 Abigail Adams (1744–1818), 1775–1776 letters to John Adams (1735–1826) 24 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), “The Prison Door,” from The Scarlet Letter (1850) 27 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), “The Deacon’s Masterpiece; or The Wonderful ‘One–Hoss Shay’” (1858) 28 II. Boston and the American Renaissance 32 R Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), “Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863) 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides” (1831) & “The Last Leaf” (1831) 57 Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), “Letter to a Young Contributor” (1862) 60 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Concord Hymn” (1837) & “Boston Hymn” (1863) 63 Louisa May Alcott (1832–1882), from “How I Went Out to Service” (1874) 67 James T. Fields (1817–1881), from “Hawthorne,” Yesterdays with Authors (1871) 74 Annie Fields (1834–1915), from “Oliver Wendell Holmes: Personal Recollections and Unpublished Letters,” Authors and Friends (1896) 78 Willa Cather (1873–1947), from “148 Charles Street,” Not Under Forty (1936) 81 contents vii III. Post–Civil War Boston 86 R Henry Adams (1838–1918), from The Education of Henry Adams (1906, 1918) 100 Mark Twain (1835–1910), “The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech” (1877) 107 William Dean Howells (1837–1920), from Literary Friends and Acquaintance (1900) & The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) 111 Henry James (1843–1916), from The Bostonians (1886) 117 IV. “Viewed in Boston Light”: Turn-of-the-Century Boston 127 R Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935), from “Dead Yet Living: An Address Delivered at Keene, N.H. Memorial Day, May 30, 1884” (1884) 145 Edith Wharton (1862–1937), from “The Lamp of Psyche” (1895) 151 George Santayana (1863–1952), from Persons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography (1944) 156 John P. Marquand (1893–1960), from The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) 158 T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), “The Boston Evening Transcript” (1917) & “Cousin Nancy” (1917) 164 Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), from Looking Backward (1888) 165 Cleveland Amory (1917–1998), from The Proper Bostonians (1947) 171 V. The “Other” Bostonians: New Voices and Visions 175 R Charlotte Forten Grimke (1838–1914), from her Journal (1854) 203 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), from “A Negro Student at Harvard” (1960) 204 Dorothy West (1907–1998), from The Living Is Easy (1948) 210 Malcolm X (1925–1965) and Alex Haley (1921–1992), from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) 219 William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), from “I Saw Frederick Douglass” (1948) & “Quiet Has a Hidden Sound” (1948) 222 John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890), from “The Exile of the Gael” (1887) & “The Fame of the City” (1881) 225 contents viii [44.223.94.103] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 15:34 GMT) J. Anthony Lukas (1933–1997), from Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) 228 Edwin O’Connor (1918–1968), from The Last Hurrah (1956) 231 Fred Allen (1894–1956), from his Letters (1935) 240 George V. Higgins (1939–1999), from The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972) 241 Michael Patrick MacDonald (1966– ), from All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (1999) 245 Mary Antin (1881–1949), from The Promised Land (1912) 246 Nat Hentoff (1925– ), from Boston Boy (1986) 256 Roland Merullo (1953– ), from In Revere, in Those Days (2002) 258 VI. “There It Was”: Boston, City of Self and Spirit 263 R Arthur C. Inman (1895–1963), from The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession (1920, 1938) 284 Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), from One Boy’s Boston (1962) 285 Robert Lowell (1917–1977), from “91 Revere Street” (1959) & “For the Union Dead” (1960) 293 Dan Wakefield (1932–), from Returning: A Spiritual Journey (1985) 298 John Updike (1932–2009), “Personal Considerations: Why Do I Live in New England?” (1999) 300 Eve LaPlante (1959– ), Introduction, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson (2004) 301 Archibald MacLeish (1892–1983), “Night Watch in the City of Boston” (1975) 307 Patricia Powell (1966– ), from “A Literary Landscape: From Jamaica to Boston” (2004) 310 Notes 315 Sources 331 contents ix ...