Volume 35, Number 16 · October 27, 1988
Mighty Manchester
By Stephen Jay Gould
Infinite in All Directions
by Freeman J. Dyson
Harper and Row, 321 pp., $19.95
Modern Manchester is scarcely the stuff of dreams and inspiration. It has stagnated with the rest of northern England during Margaret Thatcher's cruelly mistitled 'miracle'; its factories are empty, and its great newspaper fled to London years ago. But Manchester, whatever its current fortunes, remains a symbol of the pivotal movement that made modern history; for Manchester was once England's second city, and the Western world's first metropolis of the Industrial Revolution.
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