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Verita$: Harvard’s Hidden History

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A essential examination of Harvard’s monumental but disconcerting global influence and power, this book examines aspects of Harvard’s history not in most cases known. The book begins with analysis of Harvard’s involvement within the Salem Witch and Sacco-Vanzetti trials. In a similar way disquieting, Harvard provided students as strikebreakers in both the 1912 Bread and Roses textile workers strike and the 1919 Boston police strike. Harvard administrators and scientists promoted eugenics within the early 20th century and had a deep affect on Nazi Germany’s race theories. Its up to date ties to U.S. foreign policy and neoliberalism are also profound. Harvard’s management of Russian economic reform left nightmarish memories, and the university was once compelled to pay more than $26 million after the U.S. government sued it. The book also examines Harvard’s investment policy for its massive endowment, its restrictive labor policies, and its devastation of the adjoining Allston-Brighton neighborhood into which it’s expanding. Harvard’s motto is “VERITAS,” this means that “truth” in Latin, and the creator explores the ways Harvard has pursued money and power above its quest for truth.

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