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Tom Watson, agrarian rebel,

Author: C Vann Woodward
Publisher: New York, Macmillan Co., 1938.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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."  Read more...

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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
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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