Progressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of
political action available to a wide range of individuals and
groups. A diverse array of political and civic figures used it to
present themselves as leaders of a communal response to the growing
power of illicit interests and to the problems of urban-industrial
life. As structural reforms weakened a ward-based party system that
helped mute ethnic conflict, this new formula for political
mobilization grew more powerful. Its most effective variation in
Boston was an "ethnic progressivism" that depicted the city's
public life as a clash between its immigrant majority--"the
people"--and a wealthy Brahmin elite--"the interests." As this
portrayal took hold, Bostonians came to view their city as a
community permanently beset by ethnic strife.
In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston
included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders
but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new
approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century. He
rejects the assumption that ethnic politics was machine politics
and employs both institutional and rhetorical analysis to
reconstruct the inner workings of neighborhood public life and the
social narratives that bound the city together. The result is a
deeply textured picture that differs sharply from the traditional
view of machine-reform conflict.
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