| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present. By Sam Bass Warner Jr. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xvi, 244 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8122-3607-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8122-1769-1.)

In the mid-1840s, Henry David Thoreau spent two years at Walden Pond observing, philosophizing, and speculating on the implications of such things as railroad trains and textile factories. There is something of Thoreau in this new book by Sam Bass Warner Jr., the first in the Metropolitan Portraits series on various metropolitan regions in North America. Warner has come full circle from his initial classic, Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900 (1962), which described the early forms of transportation that enabled Bostonians to move from the waterfront to the suburbs. Now, some forty years later, he has returned to inquire how those people and their families have fared at the end of the twentieth century.

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