| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

William F. Hartford. Money, Morals, and Politics: Massachusetts in the Age of the Boston Associates. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 286. $55.00.

This book is a study of the politics of the Boston Brahmins, and especially of the textile-manufacturing enclave of that elite from the turn of the century to 1860. William F. Hartford's study focuses on the travails and triumphs of the Boston upper class from the decline of Federalism to the death throes of Bay State Whiggery. His theater is commonwealth politics and his protagonists are the "lords of the loom" and their allies and enemies. The interpretive markers of this examination are ideology and interest, morality and manipulation, principles and practicalities, country and city, and elitism and equality. This analytic apparatus is employed to determine how Brahmin authority and its political vehicle—Whiggery—eroded. . . .

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