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AU - Knowles, Scott Gabriel
AB - 868 The Journal of American History December 2011 An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America. By James J. Connolly. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xvi, 264 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0- 8014-4191-2.) In the 1890s Jane Addams—conscience of the social and political urban reform movements in the United States—picked a fight with the Chicago Democratic party boss Johnny Powers. Annoyed with her neighborhood’s unsanitary conditions and political corruption, Addams challenged Powers directly for his seat on the Board of Aldermen. Addams symbolized the rising future of the women’s suffrage move - ment and the coalition of reformers who would in 1912 nominate Theodore Roosevelt as candidate for president under the Progres- sive party banner. Powers, conversely, was the living manifestation of the urban politi- cal machine, inheritor of the shameful tradi- tion of New York’s William M. “Boss” Tweed. He was also a tough Irish businessman with no toleration for fancy social theory or mass movements that veered too far away from eth- nic loyalty and the needs of his working-class constituents. Powers won. At the core of this episode was the question that structures James J. Connolly’s finely Book Reviews 869 detailed An Elusive Unity: 
TI - An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jar504
DA - 2011-12-01
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