Magic in the Air: The Times & Life of Boston's Honey Fitz [signed] [first edition]

History, in part, is the story of the connections and inter-relationships that create important transitions over time. John Francis Fitzgerald's political career was largely played out during a critical crossroads in Boston politics. He was a political leader who became the bridge between the era of the urban ward boss and the era of powerful mayors. He was among the first Boston Irish politicians to break away from the assimilationists of the nineteenth century to establish a new paradigm of power in the city. And through his eldest daughter Rose, he left a familial legacy that would become central to the history of the nation in the fifty years following his death. Magic in the Air is fundamentally a Boston story, but it is also an instructive tale about the immigrant's drive to succeed and achieve power in America. In that sense, it is a story that resonates well beyond the borders of the historical capital city of Massachusetts.