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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Matthew H. Crocker. The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston 1800–1830. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 222. $35.00.

Matthew H. Crocker's book is an engaging work on the origins of mass politics in the early 1820s. Focusing on Boston and the career of Josiah Quincy, Crocker's analysis blends the best of traditional political history, the more recent emphasis on local history, and the renewed historiographic field of policy history. 1

The author explains how the deferential world of Federalist Boston collapsed in the wake of the Panic of 1819. Quincy, a former national and state politician distrusted by the Harrison Gray Otis and other fellow Federalists for his populistic style, slowly built a political following of poor-to-middling Bostonians, rootless Jeffersonian Republicans, and marginalized Federalists. This coalition capitalized on class conflict to propel Quincy to the mayoralty—a position to which he was annually reelected between 1823 and 1828. Ironically, the democratic impulses that secured Quincy's triumph were also his undoing as Bostonians first embraced and then rejected their "Caesarian" dictatorial ruler. On a local level, Quincy in some ways anticipated Andrew Jackson, and the story of his rise to and fall from power exemplifies the continued cross-influences of democracy and emphasis on individual leadership in American politics. . . .

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