The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City by Antero Pietila

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

Antero Pietila

332 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of...

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