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London EC1R 5DB United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 1767 604972 CONTENTS Fax: +44 (0) 1767 601640 New Books 1 Email: [email protected] New in Paperback 18 Web: www.eurospanbookstore.com/massachusetts Award Winners 19 Tagus Press 20 About the Series 22 About the Press 24 Sales Information inside back cover COVER ART Cover photo City Censor, City of Boston, CC BY 2.0 <https://creative commons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons University of Massachusetts Press is a proud member of the Association of University Presses. FW21-22_Cat_Cov_fin.indd 2 4/26/21 2:04 PM BRIGHT BOOKS THAT ILLUMINATE LEAF The Combat Zone Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice JAN BROGAN At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston’s Combat Zone to cele- brate. In the city’s adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city’s North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city’s red- light district. Starting with this brutal murder, The Combat Zone tells the story of the Puopolo family’s struggle with both a dev- astating loss and a criminal justice system that produced two trials with opposing verdicts, all within the context of a racially divided Boston. Brogan traces the contentious relationship between Boston’s segregated neighborhoods during the busing crisis; shines a light on a court sys- “The Combat Zone effec- tem that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based tively moves forward the purely on their racial or ethnic identity; and lays bare the conversation on race, highlighting the tumul- deep-seated corruption within the police department and tuous time of busing in throughout the Combat Zone. What emerges is a fasci- Boston and the racial nating snapshot of the city at a transitional moment in its strife that it caused, the recent past. conditions of minorities that were forced by “The careful, meticulous research, the compassionate yet circumstance to seek a balanced tone, and the compelling narrative thrust make livelihood in the Combat this book read almost like a legal or crime thriller. Brogan Zone, and how the media does a superb job in untangling this complex case.” covered Black murder — Stephanie Schorow, author of Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped victims differently than Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood white murder victims.” — Christopher Daley, author of Murder and Mayhem in Boston: Historic Crimes in the Hub JAN BROGAN is a journalist and novelist living in Boston. A former staff writer for the Providence Journal and the Worcester Telegram, her freelance work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Also of Interest and Forbes. Forever Struggle New England History and Culture / Urban Studies Activism, Identity, 240 pp., 6 illus. and Survival in Boston’s Chinatown, $24.95 bt paper, ISBN 978- 1- 62534- 609- 4 1880– 2018 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978- 1- 62534- 608- 7 Michael Liu Also available as an e- book $26.95 at paper September 2021 978- 1- 62534- 546- 2 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS · fall / winter 2021–2022 1-800-621-2736 · 1 FW21-22_Cat_fn.indd 1 4/26/21 2:55 PM BRIGHT LEAF BOOKS THAT ILLUMINATE Letters from Red Farm The Untold Story of the Friendship between Helen Keller and Journalist Joseph Edgar Chamberlin ELIZABETH EMERSON In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript columnist and edi- tor Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. Throughout her childhood and young adult years, Keller spent weekends and holi- days at Red Farm, the Chamberlins’ home in Wrentham, Massachusetts, a bustling environment where avant- garde writers, intellectuals, and social reformers of the day con- gregated. Keller eventually called Red Farm home for a year when she was sixteen. Informed by previously unpublished letters and exten- sive research, Letters from Red Farm explores for the first time Keller’s deep and enduring friendship with the man who became her literary mentor and friend for over forty years. Written by Chamberlin’s great- great granddaughter, “Emerson’s delight in her this engaging story imparts new insights into Keller’s life discoveries is clear from and personality, introduces the irresistible Chamberlin to the start, as she cap- a modern public, and follows Keller’s burgeoning interest tures Chamberlin’s role in social activism, as she took up the causes of disability in Keller’s life and offers a helpful interpretation rights, women’s issues, and pacifism. of its importance. Those “The book immediately draws the reader in, as Emerson’s interested in journalism personal connection to Chamberlin makes her a unique will find the stories of guide through the material. Her descriptions, observations, Chamberlin’s work and and explication are smart, well- written, and propel the his journalistic voice on reader forward. It’s a captivating, well- told story.” social issues fascinating.” — Patricia J. Fanning, author of Artful Lives: — Leah Blatt Glasser, author of The Francis Watts Lee Family and Their Times In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ELIZABETH EMERSON is a former grant writer and award- winning artist based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has contributed material to PBS’s film biography Becoming Helen Keller and written guest articles for the American Foundation for the Blind’s Helen Keller Archival Collection and the Perkins Archives’ newsletter. Also of Interest New England History and Culture / Disability Studies / Biography and Autobiography Went to the Devil 288 pp., 8 illus. A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade $24.95 bt paper, ISBN 978- 1- 62534- 617- 9 Anthony J. Connors $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978- 1- 62534- 616- 2 $22.95 bt paper Also available as an e- book 978- 1- 62534- 405- 2 September 2021 2 · www.umasspress.com fall / winter 2021–2022 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS FW21-22_Cat_fn.indd 2 4/26/21 2:55 PM This Brain Had a Mouth Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation JAMES M.