Holy Toledo

Contributes to understanding how Protestant ideals have at times motivated individual public actors.

~Indiana Magazine of History

The first scholar to plumb the inner workings of the tortured soul of one of America's premiere social reform mayors.

~Melvin G. Holli, University of Illinois at Chicago

The man she presents was a conflict-ridden individual who was confounded by interlaced feelings of shame and guilt that were rooted in his Welsh evangelicalism.

~Michigan Historical Review

An important book, will-researched and objectively written.

~Ohioana History

Jones has combined insights gleaned from a careful study of the literature relating to the influence of religion, self-identity, and social class on the leaders of the turn of the century progressive movement to produce a fascinating biography of Samuel 'Golden Rule' Jones, mayor of Toledo from 1897 to 1904 and an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1899.

~The Midwest Quarterly

A splendid biography depicting a divided and troubled man.

~Choice