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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... ideas , only having read her works , not having heard her many speeches . Obviously there was no opportunity to interview her in depth to probe for romantic delusion , or oversimplification , or conspiratorial hallucinations , or ...
... ideas , only having read her works , not having heard her many speeches . Obviously there was no opportunity to interview her in depth to probe for romantic delusion , or oversimplification , or conspiratorial hallucinations , or ...
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... ideas were not automatic , reflexive reactions against the prevailing economic dogma , a dogma confined to that isolated period in American history . Her concern with the economic issues she belabored is reflected in the modern concern ...
... ideas were not automatic , reflexive reactions against the prevailing economic dogma , a dogma confined to that isolated period in American history . Her concern with the economic issues she belabored is reflected in the modern concern ...
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... Idea of Success . New York : McGraw - Hill Book Company , 1971 . Janeway , Elizabeth . Between Myth and Morning ... Ideas in Farm Life , " U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook , 1940. Washington , D.C .: U.S. Government Printing ...
... Idea of Success . New York : McGraw - Hill Book Company , 1971 . Janeway , Elizabeth . Between Myth and Morning ... Ideas in Farm Life , " U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook , 1940. Washington , D.C .: U.S. Government Printing ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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