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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative
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The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925. By James J. Connolly. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 260 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-674-90950-X.)

According to James J. Connolly, "we know less than we should" about Progressive Era municipal reform and the political socialization of ethnic Americans 1


because of a reliance upon shopworn cliches about bosses, reformers, and the connections between ethnicity and political behavior. At the very least, the immigrant-reform dichotomy has obscured the agency of immigrant leaders who made Progressivism [emphasis mine] a language of ethnic activism and a tool of political insurgency.


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