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Sam Rosenfeld described the book as showing how IrishAmerican political machines directed benefits to core constituencies rather than the broader public.
Wonderful book by Stephen Eerie, Rainbows and Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840 to 1985.
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Sam Rosenfeld described the book as showing how IrishAmerican political machines directed benefits to core constituencies rather than the broader public.
Wonderful book by Stephen Eerie, Rainbows and Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840 to 1985.
What Rainbows End offers is a claim of what the machine actually did, which is to direct its benefits not sprinkled around to everybody, but to core Irish constituencies that Irish Americans rewarded their coethnics.