Rainbow's end : Irish-Americans and the dilemmas of urban machine politics, 1840-1985 /
Steven P. Erie.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1988.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages).
- California series on social choice and political economy ; 15 .
- California series on social choice and political economy ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index.
The Irish and the big-city machines -- Building the nineteenth-century machines, 1840-1896 -- Guardians of power : the Irish versus the new immigrants, 1896-1928 -- The crisis of the 1930s : the Depression, the New Deal, and changing machine fortunes, 1928-1950 -- The last hurrah? machines in the postwar era, 1950-1985 -- Machine building, Irish-American style -- Rainbow's end : machines, immigrants, and the working class.
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