The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics

by Peter H. Argersinger

Book Overview

As Ross Perot proved in 1992, even when funded by a bottomless bank account, American third parties have always struggled in their efforts to achieve recognition and political power. Yet even in defeat their contributions to national politics have been substantial. That, Peter Argersinger contends, was certainly true of the Populists a century earlier. Argersinger, one of our nation's foremost historians of the Populist era, brings together in this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607021
• ISBN13: 9780700607020
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"