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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999. Tom Watson. New York, Macmillan Co., 1938 (OCoLC)576444299 |
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| Named Person: | Thomas E Watson |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
C Vann Woodward |
| OCLC Number: | 817721 |
| Notes: | "First printing." |
| Description: | xii p., 1 l., 518 p. pl., ports. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The heritage -- Scholar and poet -- "Ishmael" in the backwoods -- The "new departure" -- Preface to rebellion -- The temper of the 'eighties -- Agrarian law-making -- Henry Grady's vision -- The rebellion of the farmers -- The victory of 1890 -- "I mean business" -- Populism in Congress -- Race, class, and party -- Populism on the march -- Année terrible -- The silver panacea -- The debacle of 1896 -- Of revolution and revolutionists -- From populism to muckraking -- Reform and reaction -- "The world is plunging hellward" -- The shadow of the Pope -- The lecherous Jew -- Peter and the armies of Islam -- The Tertium quid. |
| Responsibility: | by C. Vann Woodward ... |
Abstract:
"Biographical study of the Georgia agitator, born of a slave-owning family reduced to poverty after the Civil war, when his family declined from the plantation owner class to the share-cropper status. Always an enemy of industrialism, Watson took the side of the southern.
Farmer. He was elected to Congress in 1890, later became a Populist leader, and in 1904 and 1908 he ran for president on the Populist ticket." Book rev. digest.
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