Description
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.