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Imagining Boston: The City As Image And Experience (1986), Shaun O’Connell
Imagining Boston: The City As Image And Experience (1986), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
I want to discuss community and imagery, social division and literary unity, Boston poetry and prose. In most issues of NEJPP I will focus upon those recent books that fire our imaginations and help us shape our sense of local and regional place. In this issue, however, I want to look back at the tradition of imagery that resonates in Boston's history. Old ideas of Boston are quickly being buried under layers of architectural and cultural renewal. While the suburbs become more urbanized and the commuter roads more clogged, downtown Boston is in the midst of the greatest building boom …
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham (2006), Shaun O’Connell
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham (2006), Shaun O’Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is about the author's experience with visiting New York during it's rebirth after 9/11. He speaks about the history of both cities and how they have each grown into their own to become places of future enterprise and cultural cohesiveness.
Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 21, no. 1 (2006), article 9.
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham, Shaun O'Connell
Boston And New York: The City Upon A Hill And Gotham, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article is about the author's experience with visiting New York during it's rebirth after 9/11. He speaks about the history of both cities and how they have each grown into their own to become places of future enterprise and cultural cohesiveness.
Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention Of Speaker John W. Mccormack Of Boston, Garrison Nelson
Irish Identity Politics: The Reinvention Of Speaker John W. Mccormack Of Boston, Garrison Nelson
New England Journal of Public Policy
From his election in 1940 as Majority Leader to his last day as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971, John W. McCormack of Boston occupied the highest rungs of leadership in the Congress. Many biographies and autobiographies cover the lives and public careers of five Speakers, but not one has been devoted to McCormack — not because he was unimportant and irrelevant. He was a very private man who could rearrange the facts of his life to suit his political needs. The story had great resonance in Boston because its Irish gatekeepers — James Michael Curley, John …
Imagining Boston: The City As Image And Experience, Shaun O'Connell
Imagining Boston: The City As Image And Experience, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
I want to discuss community and imagery, social division and literary unity, Boston poetry and prose. In most issues of NEJPP I will focus upon those recent books that fire our imaginations and help us shape our sense of local and regional place. In this issue, however, I want to look back at the tradition of imagery that resonates in Boston's history. Old ideas of Boston are quickly being buried under layers of architectural and cultural renewal. While the suburbs become more urbanized and the commuter roads more clogged, downtown Boston is in the midst of the greatest building boom …