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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Page 42
... idealism , shows that nostalgia for a rural Eden did not obsess her thinking . As is evident in the earlier presentation of her ideas , Emery cherished America as " the grandest Republic the world has ever known . " Her special vision ...
... idealism , shows that nostalgia for a rural Eden did not obsess her thinking . As is evident in the earlier presentation of her ideas , Emery cherished America as " the grandest Republic the world has ever known . " Her special vision ...
Page 96
... idealism was one . From that ancient touchstone " the city on the hill " to Emma Lazarus ' lamp held " above the golden door , " and even in Thomas Bailey Aldrich's sentimental claims for America in " Unguarded Gates , " one perceives ...
... idealism was one . From that ancient touchstone " the city on the hill " to Emma Lazarus ' lamp held " above the golden door , " and even in Thomas Bailey Aldrich's sentimental claims for America in " Unguarded Gates , " one perceives ...
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... idealism - an idealistic conception of the past , an idealistic confidence in present possibilities , an idealistic vision of the future . And so this was a time , like most times , when the romantic and the real mixed and collided ...
... idealism - an idealistic conception of the past , an idealistic confidence in present possibilities , an idealistic vision of the future . And so this was a time , like most times , when the romantic and the real mixed and collided ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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