Antero Pietila: 2 books
The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins
The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America’s richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city’s defining developers. In The Ghosts...
Not in My Neighborhood
How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil...