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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Page 72
... less than three months later the Alliance , in conven- tion assembled , promulgated an aggressive seventeen - point political program that soon became famous in the agrarian movement as the " Cleburne Demands . " The ideological ...
... less than three months later the Alliance , in conven- tion assembled , promulgated an aggressive seventeen - point political program that soon became famous in the agrarian movement as the " Cleburne Demands . " The ideological ...
Page 157
... less a plaything of politicians , and the twists and turns in its political maneu- vers had scarcely augmented the legislative influence of its membership , which was less than robust in any case . By 1888 the Minnesota Alliance , after ...
... less a plaything of politicians , and the twists and turns in its political maneu- vers had scarcely augmented the legislative influence of its membership , which was less than robust in any case . By 1888 the Minnesota Alliance , after ...
Page 308
... less assistance than Powderly did . To Populists , the only promising labor spokesman was a railroad union man named Eugene Debs . But while Debs had caught the attention of such Populist journals as the Nonconformist and the South- ern ...
... less assistance than Powderly did . To Populists , the only promising labor spokesman was a railroad union man named Eugene Debs . But while Debs had caught the attention of such Populist journals as the Nonconformist and the South- ern ...
Contents
PART ONE THE TIDE RISING | 1 |
The Coming of the Farmers Alliance | 25 |
The Emergence of Alliance Radicalism | 51 |
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