Leslie ann glossner biography of mahatma
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What I Am Reading: "Boston Mahatma" by Leslie G. Ainley
This isn’t quite turn-of-the-century-Europe prep work. With just a few days to go in Massachusetts, I still had this book lying around; and it was one of the rarer books in the pile so I figured I’d read it while I still had a chance.
As I noted in my survey of Massachusetts political history books: everyone loves Martin Lomasney.
Nobody loves him more than his biographer, Leslie G. Ainley; who as best I can tell worked in Massachusetts politics in some capacity, including as an aide to Governor Volpe. This biography is just bursting with praise for Lomasney, the political boss of the West End from, roughly speaking, the 1890s to the early 1930s.
I eventually dispensed with writing laudatory quotes because there were just too many, so I’ll just note the early fact that, “His career, in retrospect, offers few opportunities for sincere condemnation of his actions or motives, because in the main both were directed toward t