A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982 - 146 pages Sarah 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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... Emery's contemporaries were aware of her presence . Hamlin Garland , a literary interpreter of the rural Midwest of this period , himself spent six weeks on the campaign trail in 1892 on behalf of the People's Party . During the course ...
... Emery's contemporaries were aware of her presence . Hamlin Garland , a literary interpreter of the rural Midwest of this period , himself spent six weeks on the campaign trail in 1892 on behalf of the People's Party . During the course ...
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... Emery . Others , though they fail to acknowledge her leadership role , second rank though it was , were not above quoting her work as proof of their analyses . Emery , the woman , was often ignored even while the fastidious scholar ...
... Emery . Others , though they fail to acknowledge her leadership role , second rank though it was , were not above quoting her work as proof of their analyses . Emery , the woman , was often ignored even while the fastidious scholar ...
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... Emery , alluded to earlier , failed to capture the spirit of either the private or the public woman , the article announcing her death from cancer did better by her . It referred to Emery as " one of the best- known citizens of Lansing ...
... Emery , alluded to earlier , failed to capture the spirit of either the private or the public woman , the article announcing her death from cancer did better by her . It referred to Emery as " one of the best- known citizens of Lansing ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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