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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City

By (author) Antero Pietila

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Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of Americaâ€™s richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the cityâ€™s defining developers. In The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins, Antero Pietila weaves together a biography of the man with a portrait of how the institutions he founded have shaped the racial legacy of an industrial city from its heyday to its decline and revitalization. From the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the mercantile buildings that dominated Baltimoreâ€™s downtown through much of the 19th century to the role that the president of Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored â€œNegro Removalâ€ that unleashed the migration patterns that created Baltimoreâ€™s existing racial patchwork, Pietila tells the story of how one manâ€™s wealth shaped and reshaped the life of a city long after his lifetime.

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