Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy

by Steve Babson

Book Overview

The Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation's political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to counter corporate monopoly and profiteering tapped into a growing resentment of the rich, a resentment that grew as the economy alternated between rapid growth, producing more millionaires, and severe economic depressions, producing more poverty. The Populist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1958363790
• ISBN13: 9781958363799
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Mission Point Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"