Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Politics and Society at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 2. The Dimensions of Progressivism -- 3. The Politics of Municipal Reform -- 4. The New Urban Political Terrain -- 5. James Michael Curley and the Politics of Ethnic Progressivism -- 6. Ethnic Progressivism Triumphant: Boston Public Life in the 1920s -- Epilogue -- Statistical Appendix -- Selected Primary Sources -- Notes -- Index.