The populist persuasion [electronic resource] : an American history / Michael Kazin.

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"In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day. Kazi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kazin, Michael, 1948- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Edition:	Revised edition with a new preface.
Subjects:	Populism > United States > History. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933. United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
Online Access:	History Reference eBook Collection: 2017 (EBSCO) EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Populist Persuasion: An American History, The
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Introduction : speaking for the people
Inheritance
The righteous commonwealth of the late nineteenth century
Workers as citizens : labor and the left in the Gompers era
Onward, Christian mothers and soldiers : the prohibitionist crusade
Social justice and social paranoia : the Catholic populism of Father Coughlin
The many and the few : the CIO and the embrace of liberalism
A free people fight back : the rise and fall of the Cold War right
Power to which people? : the tragedy of the white new left
Stand up for the working man : George Wallace and the making of a new right
The conservative capture : from Nixon to Reagan
Spinning the people
Conclusion : a language we need?.