but this is what beatty has to say almost as if he were directly following hostetter. he writes: an arktypal -- archtypal boston story illustrates the resulting clash of cultures. a beacon hill lady -- kind of an elite within boston, standing for the first culture, yankee, protestant culture. a beacon hill lady once went ringing doorbells on behalf of a high-minded candidate for the school committee many. at one house, an irish house lady listened politely and then asked doesn't he have a sister that works for the school or has something to do with the school system? the beacon hill lady was shocked at what she took to be suggestion of patronage. i assure you, madam, she replied, he is not the kind of man who would ever use his option to advance his sister. to which the south boston the housewife responded, well, if the s.o.b. won't even help his own sister, why should i vote for him? [laughter] and so that captures that contrast more than anything else. politics is about helping each other out in material ways, and, you know, for the south boston irish woman, it's not

outline, i have richard hostetter's pulitzer prize-winning book the age of reform bit written in 1955. it is about late 19th century into the early 20th century. hostetter introduces this period with this very illuminating contrast between two different political cultures. according to hostetter, one of those cultures is described as founded upon indigenous, that means anglo, middle class protestants yankee political traditions. this yankee protestant political tradition assumed, and demanded they constant disinterested activity of the citizen. disinterested is key, here. politics is not supposed to be about interest. it is disinterested. this tradition argued that political life ought to be full of general principles and abstract law. apart from personal needs, we do not get into politics for personal needs. in addition, this political culture carried with the assumption that government should be, in good part, an effort to moralize the lives of individuals, we have seen this already with the moral reform traditions that started in the 1830s, these are directly political and politica

outline, i have richard hostetter's pulitzer prize-winning book the age of reform bit written in 1955. it is about late 19th century into the early 20th century. hostetter introduces this period with this very illuminating contrast between two different political cultures. according to hostetter, one of those cultures is described as founded upon indigenous, that means anglo, middle class protestants yankee political traditions. this yankee protestant political tradition assumed, and demanded they constant disinterested activity of the citizen. disinterested is key, here. politics is not supposed to be about interest. it is disinterested. this tradition argued that political life ought to be full of general principles and abstract law. apart from personal needs, we do not get into politics for personal needs. in addition, this political culture carried with the assumption that government should be, in good part, an effort to moralize the lives of individuals, we have seen this already with the moral reform traditions that started in the 1830s, these are directly political and politica