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Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950

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What do Barack Obama, Samuel Beckett, Fidel Castro, Joan Baez, Conan O’Brien, Natalie Portman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower have in not unusual? Their footsteps have all crossed paths in Harvard Square. This well-trod patch of Cambridge turf on the corner of the US’ such a lot renowned university has long been a crossroads where poetry, retailing, politics, design, performance, and each other cultural endeavor intersect. 

 From the square’s tweedy aspect within the 1950s through its many transformations within the ’60s,’70s, and beyond, writer Mo Lotman gives a decade-by-decade account of Harvard Square’s history, traditions, and lore. The bookstores, the billiard parlors, the barbershops, the booze and burger joints: they’re all here. In keeping with interviews with more than a hundred of the square’s denizens, illustrated with archival photographs, and graced with texts by John Updike, Bill McKibben, Governor Bill Weld, and others, Harvard Square brings “the neatest urban space in The usa” to vivid life.

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