The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism

by Walter Nugent

A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the original source of the term "populism," and a catalyst for the later Progressive Era and New Deal. Historians wrote approvingly of the Populists up into the 1950s. But with time and new voices, led by historian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022605408X
• ISBN13: 9780226054087
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"