| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890–1914. By Jørn Brøndal. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 2004. xii, 379 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87732-095-0.)

Since practitioners of the new political history during the 1960s and 1970s elaborated an ethnocultural interpretation of American political history, investigators have paid special attention to the impact of ethnicity and religious affiliation on political behavior. It is well known, for example, that Wisconsin's Scandinavian Americans were staunchly Republican in orientation and that they played a significant role in the rise of La Follette Progressivism in the state. This well-conceived study of the quarter century from 1890 to 1914 analyzes that relationship in detail, estimates the strength of the connection, and addresses the question of why the state's Scandinavian Americans were inclined to back Robert M. La Follette Sr. and his political faction.

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