A quickie history of the Massachusetts Republican Convention of 1936, featuring mainly material from Miller's biography of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and from Leverett Saltonstall's memoirs, written with Edward Weeks.
Read MoreThe only biography of literally everyone’s favorite early 20th century Boston Irish machine politician.
Read MoreA few notes on The Gentleman Mr. Shattuck by John T. Galvin, Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts Politics 1900-1912 by Richard M. Abrams, David I. Walsh, Citizen-Patriot by Dorothy G. Wayman, The Knave of Boston by Francis Russell, “Honey Fitz:” Three Steps to the White House by John Henry Cutler, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leading The Way: A History of the Massachusetts General Court 1629-1980 by Cornelius Dalton, John Wirkkala, and Anne Thomas, The Remarkable Kennedys by Joe McCarthy, and Boston Mahatma by Leslie G. Ainley.
Read MoreA biography of four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley.
Read MoreA surprisingly good biography of Daniel H. Coakley, a corrupt power player in the politics of Boston a century ago.
Read MoreMassachusetts’ brief time as the Know-Nothing Party’s greatest success story, 1854-57.
Read MoreA “monograph” on the 1952 Massachusetts Senate election between Cabot and Jack.
Read MoreThe sequel to Mackerel by Moonlight, following Terry Mullally’s Senate shenanigans.
Read MoreBill Weld’s first political novel about how he wishes he were a Boston Irish Democrat.
Read MoreA politics novel published (under a pen name) by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1957.
Read MoreA novel about the Quabbin Reservoir by former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld.
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