A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the "money power." |
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895 |
| Authors | Pauline Adams, Emma S. Thornton |
| Photographs by | Emma S. Thornton |
| Contributor | Pauline Adams |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 15 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 0879722037, 9780879722036 |
| Length | 146 pages |
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