Chris Dempsey, one of the founders of No Boston Olympics, and Andrew Zimbalist, a Smith College economist, are running excerpts at CommonWealth magazine from their new book ‘No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch,’ highlighting a few of the monumental political screw-ups that doomed Boston’s Olympics bid two years ago. It’s a little jarring how they refer to themselves in the third person, but they have some good insider stuff, sort of a trip down outraged memory lane.
Mayor Marty Walsh is already panning the tome. "I think a couple opportunists jumped on this and I guess they are writing a book now,” he tells NBC Boston. “I'd like to know where the profits of the book are going to go. There are some falsehoods in that book that they wrote about. It seems to be that they're doing it for their own personal gain, which is fine.”
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