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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City (Hardcover)

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Antero Pietila shows how one man's wealth shaped and reshaped a city long after his life, from the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the dominating buildings in Baltimore's downtown to the role that Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored "Negro Removal" causing the city's existing racial patchwork.

About the Author


Antero Pietila's thirty-five years with the Baltimore Sun included coverage of the city's neighborhoods, politics and government but also seven years of reporting as a correspondent in South Africa and the Soviet Union. A native of Finland, where he graduated from Tampere's School of Social Sciences, Pietila became a student of urban racial rotations during his first visit to the United States in 1964. He later obtained a Master of Arts degree at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (2010). He is a contributor to The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper, as well as an ebook, Race Goes To War: Ollie Stewart and the Reporting of Black Correspondents in World War II. He resides in Baltimore, MD.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781538116036
ISBN-10: 1538116030
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: November 2nd, 2018
Pages: 336
Language: English