Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America, Volume 10Oxford University Press, 1976 - 718 pages "This book is about the decline of freedom in America," Lawrence Goodwyn writes, and he then proceeds to overturn three generations of historical literature on Populism and to cast a radically new light on what he calls the undemocratic "progressive society" of twentieth-century America. Designed as a protest against special privilege and the growing despotism of industrialism, Populism brought together farmer and worker, black and white. The agrarian revolt began in Texas in the 1870s, spread throughout the South and Midwest, and reached its apex as the People's Party in the early 1890s, dedicated to a fundamental restructuring of finance capitalism and the American banking system. The movement was exploited in William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential bid and then disintegrated, leaving us with a word--"populist"--Which is today much used and misused.--Publisher's description. |
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... gold ? Gold exclusively ? Silver and gold ? Did the currency include paper money ? 9 These matters tended to be discussed by monetary conser- vatives in rigid , moral terms . Their answers were short and clear , if often , in retrospect ...
... gold ? Gold exclusively ? Silver and gold ? Did the currency include paper money ? 9 These matters tended to be discussed by monetary conser- vatives in rigid , moral terms . Their answers were short and clear , if often , in retrospect ...
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... gold reserves . Long before McClellan's army em- barked for the first great Richmond campaign , the nation had quietly left the gold standard . In technical language that mil- lions of Americans would try to comprehend over the next two ...
... gold reserves . Long before McClellan's army em- barked for the first great Richmond campaign , the nation had quietly left the gold standard . In technical language that mil- lions of Americans would try to comprehend over the next two ...
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... gold- bugs seemed to multiply even as the reform movement gath- ered momentum . Aside from the obvious social costs , the sheer administrative expense of maintaining the gold standard proved back - breaking to the nation's Treasury ...
... gold- bugs seemed to multiply even as the reform movement gath- ered momentum . Aside from the obvious social costs , the sheer administrative expense of maintaining the gold standard proved back - breaking to the nation's Treasury ...
Contents
PART ONE THE TIDE RISING | 1 |
The Coming of the Farmers Alliance | 25 |
The Emergence of Alliance Radicalism | 51 |
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