The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in AmericaThis condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. |
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Table des matières
| 1 | |
| 20 | |
| 55 | |
The Peoples Movement | 95 |
The Core Cultural Struggle | 125 |
The Triumph of the Corporate | 213 |
The Movement | 230 |
The Irony of Populism | 264 |
Afterword | 323 |
A Critical Essay on Authorities | 333 |
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achieved agrarian movement agrarian revolt Alabama Alliance cooperative Alliance leaders Alliance lecturers Alliance organizers Alliancemen American bankers banking became Bryan campaign candidate central Charles Macune Cleburne coalition convention cooperative crusade cooperative movement corporate cotton County Alliance crop lien currency Dakota Daws defeat delegates democracy Democratic Party economic effort election exchange farm Farmers Alliance free silver furnishing merchant fusion fusionists Georgia Gilded Age gold goldbugs greenback hierarchical idea industrial insurgent issue Jerry Simpson Kansas Knights of Labor leadership lien system Macune Macune's mass mid-roaders millions monetary system movement culture National Alliance National Farmers Alliance Nebraska nomination North Carolina Omaha Platform organizational party's People's Party politicians Populism Populist president radical railroad recruited reform movement shadow movement silverites social society South Southern spokesmen struggle sub-treasury plan suballiances tactical Taubeneck Texas Alliance third party Tom Watson Union Labor Party vote Watson white supremacy William Jennings Bryan William Lamb
Fréquemment cités
Page 167 - We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin.
Page xxix - I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Page 173 - Times the sub-treasury plan appeared as "one of the wildest and most fantastic projects ever seriously proposed by sober man...
Page 1 - ... it was considered, to put it mildly, bad luck for a man of the neighborhood to do his trading or gin his cotton or grind his meal or shoe his stock anywhere else.
Page 167 - The time has arrived for the great West, the great South and the great Northwest, to link their hands and hearts together and march to the ballot box and take possession of the government, restore it to the principles of our fathers, and run it in the interest of the people.
Page 47 - The establishment of Bureaus of Labor Statistics, that we may arrive at a correct knowledge of the educational, moral and financial condition of the laboring masses.
Page 1 - He was a farmer, a usurer, a veterinarian; Judge Benbow of Jefferson once said of him that a mildermannered man never bled a mule or stuffed a ballot box. He owned most of the good land in the country and held mortgages on most of the rest. He owned the store and the cotton gin and the combined grist mill and blacksmith shop in the village proper and it was considered, to put it mildly, bad luck for a man of the neighborhood to do his trading or gin his cotton or grind his meal or shoe his...
Page 1 - He was the largest landholder and beat supervisor in one county and Justice of the Peace in the next and election commissioner in both, and hence the fountainhead if not of law at least of advice and suggestion to a countryside which would have repudiated the term constituency if they had ever heard it...
Page 83 - This plan is pure and simple cooperation, with no joint-stock features whatever, and differs from similar plans before introduced in several important particulars. It is calculated to benefit the whole class, and not simply those who have surplus money to invest in capital stock; it does not aspire to, and is not calculated to be a business for profit in itself, but is intended to be strictly auxiliary and supplemental to the farming efforts.
Page 34 - At those encampments speakers, with growing confidence, pioneered a new political language to describe the "money trust," the gold standard and the private national banking system that underlay all of their troubles in the lien system. How is a democratic culture created? Apparently in such prosaic, powerful ways. When a farm family's wagon crested a hill en route to a Fourth of July "Alliance Day...
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| Titre | The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America |
| Auteur | Lawrence Goodwyn |
| Éditeur | Oxford University Press, 1978 |
| ISBN | 019973609X, 9780199736096 |
| Longueur | 384 pages |
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