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Eyewitness Guide Boston
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2003 PAPER 200 PAGES
An exceptionally informative, visually entrancing guide to Boston with a chapter on places to visit farther afield. The compact guide includes excellent neighborhood maps, museum plans and innovative 3-D architectural renderings of key buildings. With select listings on places to eat, shop and sleep.
(BOS10, $20.00)
Boston, A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition
Lawrence W. Kennedy Walter Muir Whitehill
HISTORY 2000 PAPER 380 PAGES
A classic history of Boston, told with a particular focus on urban planning. The authors explain how old and new commingle in the city from colonial present through modern times. In a new edition, updated to cover developments during the last 30 years.
(BOS06, $17.50)
Common Ground, A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
HISTORY 1986 PAPER 688 PAGES
The Pulitzer Prize-winning study of racial tensions in Boston told from the perspectives of three families. This well-written history pays particular attention to the school integration and busing crisis of 1974.
(BOS14, $18.95)
Boston Map (Boston Unfolds)
VanDam
MAP
This convenient map of Boston has a clever "origami" fold to help the traveler refer to any location in the city without having to deal with an unwieldy and large piece of paper.
(BOS09, $6.95)
AIA Guide to Boston
Michael Southworth
Susan Southworth
GUIDEBOOK
This estimable guide sruveys more than 600 of Boston's noteworthy buildings and landmarks.
(BOS07, $29.95)
Boston's Freedom Trail, A Souvenir Guide
Robert Booth
Shirley Moskow
Jack Frost
GUIDEBOOK
A pocket guide to the Freedom Trail.
(BOS05, $6.95)
Compass Guide Boston
Patricia Harris
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, handsomely produced guide featuring outstanding photography, solid maps and practical travel information.
(USE05, $21.00)
Fodor's Boston's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
A shirt-pocket guide to Boston, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights.
(USE04, $11.95)
Literary Trail of Greater Boston
Susan Wilson
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to literary Boston, Concord and Cambridge.
(BOS04, $12.00)
The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America
John Mack Faragher
REFERENCE
An A-Z reference on the revolution with 1500 entries from the early 1600s through nationhood.
(USE162, $24.50)
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, A Companion Guide and History
Hilliard T. Goldfarb
GUIDEBOOK
A visitor's guide to the museum.
(BOS03, $27.00)
Where Boston Cityguide
Where Magazine
GUIDEBOOK
A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map.
(BOS31, $9.95)
Boston A to Z
Thomas H. O'Connor
HISTORY
An eclectic, affectionate tour of people, places, and events in the history of Boston.
(BOS02, $14.95)
Boston Then and Now
Elizabeth McNulty
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An illustrated chronicle of Boston and its development over the decades as shown through the juxtaposition of pairs of archival and modern photographs.
(BOS27, $18.95)
Boston Then and Now, 59 Boston Sites Photographed in the Past and Present
Peter Vanderwarker
HISTORY
Boston captured in time, first over a century ago and again in the early 1980s.
(BOS15, $10.95)
Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
HISTORY
A riveting tale of Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and especially of Jefferson and Adams. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, it's a fascinating glimpse into the early days of our country.
(USE244, $14.95)
Inventing the Charles River
Karl Haglund
HISTORY
An illustrated history of Boston's Charles River, a feat of civil engineering and a vital public space.
(BOS24, $55.00)
Lexington and Concord, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot
HISTORY
A popular history of the opening shots of the American Revolution.
(BOS16, $16.95)
The Americans, the Colonial Experience
Daniel Boorstin
HISTORY
Winner of the Bancroft Prize, this wide-ranging portrait of colonial America looks to the origins of the American character and its institutions.
(USA05, $15.95)
A Studio of Her Own, Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
Erica E. Hirshler
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A history of women's lives and art in Boston, published by the MFA Boston.
(BOS08, $40.00)
Architecture After Richardson, Regionalism Before Modernism
Margaret Henderson Floyd
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An oversized scholarly study of American architects Longfellow, Alden and Harlow.
(BOS20, $100.00)
Lost Boston
Jane Holtz Kay
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This valuable tribute to the Boston of old features 350 gorgeous monochrome photographs and lively accompanying text.
(BOS11, $25.00)
Treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Malcolm Rogers
Gilian Wohlauer
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Highlights of the collection at the MFA.
(USE241, $11.95)
John Adams
David McCullough
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling biography of the second president. McCullough reveals him as a magnificent figure who helped shaped the nation.
(USE201, $20.00)
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Esther Forbes
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An engaging, classic biography of the much mythologized hero of the American Revolution.
(BOS17, $17.95)
The Rascal King, The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
Jack Beatty
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Beatty, a contributor to the Atlantic, follows the climb of the notorious four-term Boston mayor (1874-1958) from Irish slums to political power in this full-length biography, originally published in 1992.
(BOS19, $22.50)
The Good City, Writers Explore 21st Century Boston
Emily Hiestand
Ande Zellman
ANTHOLOGY
This collection of contemporary writing on Boston includes contributions by Susan Orlean and Michael Patrick MacDonald.
(BOS28, $14.00)
After Frost, An Anthology of Poetry from New England
Henry Lyman
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
LITERATURE
A collection of poems from 30 of New England's most notable poets, with selections by Robert Frost, the granddaddy of New England poetry. Other featured poets include Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath.
(USE52, $22.95)
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
LITERATURE
Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four high-spirited sisters growing up in Civil War-era Massachussetts.
(USE210, $6.99)
Rise to Rebellion
Jeff M. Shaara
LITERATURE
Shaara, a storyteller of note, here turns from the Civil War to the signature moments of the American Revolution -- as seen through the eyes of key figures.
(USE287, $15.95)
The Bostonians
Henry James
LITERATURE
Henry James' satirical novel of the battle of the sexes set in 1870s Boston.
(BOS13, $20.00)
The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl
LITERATURE
A historical murder mystery, centered around the works of Dante.
(BOS12, $13.95)
The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells
LITERATURE
A classic novel of the Gilded Age set in Boston.
(BOS21, $15.00)
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