A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895Popular 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." |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
An Evaluation | 41 |
Her Assault on the Status of Women in an Intemperate Society | 61 |
Part One | 75 |
Part Two | 87 |
Appendix A | 115 |
Appendix B | 121 |
Notes | 129 |
Bibliography | 139 |
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