Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xvii
1 The Literary-Industrial Complex 1
2 Social Reform in the People's Republic 47
3 Industrial Cambridge 87
4 Origins of a Research Enterprise 137
5 Cambridge Goes to War 185
6 Digital Cambridge 225
7 Harnessing Biology 259
8 Our Fair City in Popular Culture 293
9 Re: Invention 335
Notes 343
Index 385
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.
"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
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