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Kennedy versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race. By Thomas J. Whalen. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. xii, 216 pp. $28.95, ISBN 1-55553-462-7.) In his foreword to Thomas J. Whalen's Kennedy versus Lodge, Robert Dallek predicts that the book will "stand as the definitive study" of its subject. He may be right. Few books are written on individual Senate elections, and Whalen has effectively mined the appropriate primary sources and has told the story of the campaign well. On the other hand, much of the narrative is neither new nor much more informative than other, briefer treatments of the subject. What is lacking is in-depth analysis of the results of the election and how those results related to broader electoral forces in 1952.
Two of the few secondary...