Born in Cambridge
400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
$64.79
- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2022
Summary
Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints—cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of “firsts”—the first college in the English colonies, the first two-way long-distance call, the first legal same-sex marriage. In 1632, Anne Bradstreet, living in what is now Harvard Square, wrote one of the first published poems in British North America, and in 1959, Cambridge-based Carter’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046800 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262046806 |
| Author: | Karen Weintraub, Michael Kuchta |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“Authors Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta have lived in Cambridge for over 20 years, and on long walks around the city, started noting historical plaques and tallying ‘firsts’ for the city. The result of their perambulations is the delightful Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovations… the book is a celebration of the People’s Republic, and the energy, innovation, and creative crackle that’s wildly out of proportion with its small size… Weintraub and Kuchta deliver an enormous amount of information, digestibly told, giving insights and new corners of discovery for even the lifelong Cantabrigian. It’s an unconventional history for an unconventional city.”
—The Boston Globe
“Born in Cambridge covers a ton of ground, but part of the book’s charm is turning its pages and not knowing what gem of a piece of local history you’ll stumble upon next.”
—The Cambridge Chronicle
About The Author
Karen Weintraub
Karen Weintraub is a journalist, now working as health reporter at USA Today. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, and STAT, and she is the coauthor of The Autism Revolution and Fast Minds.
Michael Kuchta is an architect and campus planner.
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