The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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Book Reviews

Democracy Across the Nineteenth Century

James J Connolly. An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. xiv + 264 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4191-2.

Thomas J. Jablonskya1 c1

a1 Marquette University

Thomas J. Jablonsky is the Harry G. John Professor of Urban Studies at Marquette University and the author of Home, Heaven and Mother Party (1994) as well as Pride in the Jungle (1993). He is at work on a collective biography of the mayors of Los Angeles from 1850 to 1941.