| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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A Catholic in the White House?: Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign. By Thomas J. Carty. (New York: Palgrave, 2004. viii, 215 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-4039-6252-9.)
Professor Thomas J. Carty has taken John F. Kennedy's campaign for the presidency in 1960 as the theme of a far-ranging investigation of the role of religion in American politics and in particular of the place of the Roman Catholic Church in American political history.	1
Carty begins by showing how it was only with heavy Irish immigration in the 1840s that active hostility to Catholics appeared in American politics. He attributes Irish Catholic loyalty to the Democratic party to the hostile reception with which native-born Protestants greeted these immigrants. He traces the rise of nativism and its eclipse during and immediately after the Civil War and the revival of resistance to Catholic political power in the heyday of city machines such as Tammany Hall in New York City. He provides an interesting account of the role played by pro- and anti-Catholic feeling in the elections of 1924 and 1928, and he contrasts the style of two Catholic challengers for the presidency: Al Smith from the sidewalks of New York, and the rural, "dry" Tom Walsh of Montana.	. . .

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