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...ALAN LUPO...
...question has become a shibboleth: Why has the North's most violent resistance to integrated schools arisen in Boston, the place John Greenleaf Whittier called "Christian liberty's chosen home"? Alan Lupo, a onetime reporter (the Baltimore Evening Sun, the Boston Globe) and dogged historical researcher, provides some thoughtful answers...
...Lupo writes out of sympathy and sadness for a city afflicted by tensions that stretch far beyond its precincts. Boston failed to cope peacefully with its school-busing crisis of 1974 in part because Boston had never been a unified city. It was schizophrenic: "A chic Boston, of specialty shops and bars and steak houses with hokey names" and "the old Boston, increasingly angry at the threats to its life-style and existence, convinced that somebody else was getting everything, while it was getting nothing more than the shaft." Boston's cursing, stone-throwing resistance to busing...
With a storyteller's gift for narrative and vivid detail, Lupo enlivens the somewhat familiar history of poor, brawling Irish immigrants invading the Boston of the 1800s and suffering harassment from the threatened Yankees. He readily accepts Henry Adams' description of the Puritan-descended New Englander, who "in his long struggle with a stingy or hostile universe, had learned also to love the pleasure of hating; his joys were...
...Lupo, Boston Magazine...