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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Nugent, Walter T.K. Tolerant Populists (DLC) 2013005901 (OCoLC)828057688 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter T K Nugent |
ISBN: | 9780226054117 022605411X 1299850820 9781299850828 |
OCLC Number: | 861342103 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Contents: | Populism bastinadoed, and some caveats -- The populist as monster -- Revising the revisionists -- The salad days -- Kansas in the eighties -- The ethnic pattern -- Prohibition and political futility -- Economic boom and bust -- "Agitate, educate, organize!" -- The birth of the alliance -- Goodbye, my party, goodbye -- The people's party and other people -- Fruits of victory -- A populist profile -- Money question or "money power"? -- Englishmen and Jews -- Alien land -- The political years -- Fusion and victory -- An arm-in-arm campaign -- Storms in the state house -- Populism against itself -- Fusion and faction -- Women's suffrage, prohibition, and the APA -- A three-ticket race -- Bleak results -- Free silver and "undesirable classes" -- A single-issue campaign -- The literacy test for immigrants -- After seven lean years -- Denouement -- Jingoes and humanitarians -- The 1898 campaign -- And afterward. |
Responsibility: | Walter Nugent. |
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"Often misrepresented and misunderstood, its very name stolen and twisted by movements hostile to the progressive reforms it fore-shadowed, American Populism deserved the penetrating corrective report contained in Walter Nugent's book of fifty years ago. For readers in today's threatened democracy, this anniversary reissue is more timely than ever." (Bernard Weisberger, author of America Afire)" Read more...

