The Populist Persuasion: An American HistoryCornell University Press, 1998 M10 29 - 387 páginas "Kazin has written a thoughtful and important book on one of the more consequential movements in American politics-populism. Tracing the emergence of populist campaigns from the 19th century to the present day, he looks at such movements as the labor movement, the prohibitionist crusade, Catholic radio populist Father Coughlin, the New Left, and the recent advance of conservative populism, as identified with such figures as George Wallace and Ronald Reagan. Kazin opens by saying, 'I began to write this book as a way of making sense of a painful experience: the decline of the American Left, including its liberal component, and the rise of the Right.' Anyone interested in either political tendency will find this book both informative and engaging. It is a powerful, elegantly written, and observant study that never fails to retain the reader's interest."—Library Journal For the revised Cornell edition, Michael Kazin has rewritten the final chapter, bringing his coverage of American populism up to the 1996 presidential election, and he has added a new conclusion. |
Contenido
Inheritance | 9 |
The Righteous Commonwealth of the Late Nineteenth Century | 27 |
Labor and the Left in the Gompers Era | 49 |
The Prohibitionist Crusade | 79 |
The Catholic Populism | 109 |
The CIO and the Embrace of Liberalism | 135 |
The Rise and Fall of the Cold War Right | 165 |
Power to Which People? The Tragedy of the White New Left | 195 |
George Wallace and the Making | 221 |
From Nixon to Reagan | 245 |
Spinning the People | 269 |
A Language We Need? | 287 |
NOTES | 293 |
GOOD READING | 364 |
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