| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Henry Pratt. Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895–1994. Introduction by Ronald Brown. (African American Life Series.) Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 193. $24.95.
Places of worship seem to grace the corners of every major thoroughfare, and are fixtures of every neighborhood, in America's largest and most powerful urban centers. But while churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques are ubiquitous in these cities, scholars know very little about the political role that such institutions may have played in urban politics over time. What is the relationship between city hall and the Roman Catholic Church? How much were local city governments shaped by the many Protestant churches that dot urban landscapes?	1
These are the broad questions that political scientist Henry Pratt set out to answer in his study of Detroit and New York from the Progressive era to the mid-1990s. Pratt, who died before seeing his book to publication, was himself a native Detroiter who attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he became fascinated with religion and politics while working as Reinhold Niebuhr's research assistant. Throughout Pratt's career, he remained persuaded that historians and political scientists alike had much to learn about the ways in which political power evolved in American cities, and particularly about how religion shaped that evolution.	. . .

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