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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... groups held many similar beliefs . The Unitarians were more self - consciously intellectual , emphasizing reason . The Universalists were more missionary and rural . Both espoused the Social Gospel that religious principles needed to be ...
... groups held many similar beliefs . The Unitarians were more self - consciously intellectual , emphasizing reason . The Universalists were more missionary and rural . Both espoused the Social Gospel that religious principles needed to be ...
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... groups in their frantic search for solutions . Emery was one of those joiners . At one time or another , she belonged to at least seven of these groups and was co - founder of one . While the Michigan experience resembled the national ...
... groups in their frantic search for solutions . Emery was one of those joiners . At one time or another , she belonged to at least seven of these groups and was co - founder of one . While the Michigan experience resembled the national ...
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... groups . First , those who believed in bimetallism only after an international agreement accepting silver as a ... group included " the mass of the Populist Party and its sympathizers .... Probably no body of men [ emphasis added ] in ...
... groups . First , those who believed in bimetallism only after an international agreement accepting silver as a ... group included " the mass of the Populist Party and its sympathizers .... Probably no body of men [ emphasis added ] in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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