The Populist Persuasion : : An American History / / Michael Kazin.
In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Revised Edition with a New Preface |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the 2017 Printing: Who Speaks for the People Now?
- Notes to the Preface
- Introduction: Speaking for the People
- 1. Inheritance
- 2. The Righteous Commonwealth of the Late Nineteenth Century
- 3. Workers as Citizens: Labor and the Left in the Gompers Era
- 4. Onward, Christian Mothers and Soldiers: The Prohibitionist Crusade
- 5. Social Justice and Social Paranoia: The Catholic Populism of Father Coughlin
- 6. The Many and the Few: The CIO and the Embrace of Liberalism
- 7. A Free People Fight Back: The Rise and Fall of the Cold War Right
- 8. Power to Which People? The Tragedy of the White New Left
- 9. Stand Up for the Working Man: George Wallace and the Making of a New Right
- 10. The Conservative Capture: From Nixon to Reagan
- 11. Spinning the People
- Conclusion: A Language We Need?
- A Note on Method
- Notes
- Good Reading
- Index