To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here. The book, which once intervened in a fierce historiographical debate, offers a challenge to how Americans understand and discuss politics now. Walter Nugent's thoroughly researched and readable portrait of the real people who formed the People's Party in Kansas was a vital revisionist groundbreaker fifty years ago and its re-issue now is even more timely. The Cubs-White Sox World Series of "Fifty years ago a young historian took on the kings of the intellectual world, who were immensely frightened of The People.
Back then, The Tolerant Populists proved to be a critically important intellectual and political intervention. Johnston, author of The Radical Middle Class "Historians will welcome Chicago's new edition of a classic work on American politics and reform—a book that deserves a new generation of readers. Full of rich evidence and lively portraits of impassioned activists, Walter Nugent's book decisively refutes the notion that Populists were reactionary and backward-looking.
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Rather, Nugent places them where they belong: Americans in the "Gilded Age," Walter Nugent is the Andrew V. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Into the West: A History of American Expansion , and Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime. A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Historians wrote approvingly of the Populists up into the s.
But with time and new voices, led by historian Richard Hofstadter, the Populists were denigrated, depicted as demagogic, conspiratorial, and even anti-Semitic. In a landmark study, Walter Nugent set out to uncover the truth of populism, focusing on the most prominent Populist state, Kansas. He focused on primary sources, looking at the small towns and farmers that were the foundation of the movement.
The result, The Tolerant Populists , was the first book-length, source-based analysis of the Populists. A definitive work on populism, it serves as a vivid example of the potential that political movements and popular opinion can have to change history and affect our future. Read more Read less. Customers who bought this item also bought.
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