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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... reading of Emery indicates that she used the term as a shorthand for banker - usurer who , she concluded , was the embodied threat to the American system.4 Whatever she meant , it was a demagogic tool to rouse her readers to action . It ...
... reading of Emery indicates that she used the term as a shorthand for banker - usurer who , she concluded , was the embodied threat to the American system.4 Whatever she meant , it was a demagogic tool to rouse her readers to action . It ...
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... reading that , one is ready for her allusion to Uncle Tom's Cabin in the succeeding paragraph . " Do you suppose the ... readers , aside from the melodramatic tone , is Emery's historical distortion , in this case , of the causes of the ...
... reading that , one is ready for her allusion to Uncle Tom's Cabin in the succeeding paragraph . " Do you suppose the ... readers , aside from the melodramatic tone , is Emery's historical distortion , in this case , of the causes of the ...
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... reader or writer or singer . An awareness of sentimental language started very early in life . Many a Midwestern ... readers mirrored the language as well as the values of the adult world . One example is the poem " The Song of the ...
... reader or writer or singer . An awareness of sentimental language started very early in life . Many a Midwestern ... readers mirrored the language as well as the values of the adult world . One example is the poem " The Song of the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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