About this title: This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195024173ISBN:0195024176
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780195024173ISBN:0195024176
Description: Good. 5 1/2" x 8" Name inked on first page, underlining to text, binding tight, 2" crease to front cover, else minor wear to covers. 349 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780195024173ISBN:0195024176
Description: Paperback. Not Pretty. Some Staining/Writing/Wrinkling/Bent Pages; Frayed Corners. SKU: 23290538 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780195024173 Not Pretty. Some Staining/Writing/Wrinkling/Bent Pages; Frayed Corners. SKU: 23290538 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780195024173ISBN:0195024176
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Large diagonal crease on back right bottom corner of cover and some pages inside. Other corners bumped and curled. Pages are lightly age browned. Text is unmarked and binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 380 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, NY
Date Published: c. 1978
Description: Good+; Trade Paperback. Full-length spine creases. Very minor wear and soil/foxing on sound binding. Neat very light yellow highlighting through p.107, otherwise text is clean. The brown PAPER COVER is about the weight of posterboard. HISTORY. This book is an abridged edition of DEMOCRATIC PROMISE, The Populist Moment in America, 1976. After the Civil War, America's farmers were faced with a growing crisis; no matter how hard they worked more and more farmers saw their farm mortgates foreclosed ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1978-11-30
ISBN-13:9780195024173ISBN:0195024176
Description: Good. Paperback. General paperback wear, bends in spine, possible bends from reading on the cover, and may have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response! read more
"Ah Kansas. This is a really interesting book that traces the origins, development, and ultimate demise of the radical agrarian Populist movement on the 1890s. Goodwyn writes from both an activist and academic perspective, looking at how mass movements begin, how they become viable, how they survive or fail. He sees the Populists as the last true challenge to the two dominant political parties. They were not, as usually portrayed, unintelligent hayseeds hollering about free silver, but knew exactly what was happening with industrial capitalism and saw the coming dominance of the corporate state through the further concentration of wealth and power in big business. They sought not only reforms but an actual overhaul of the whole thing, like an alternate financial system (based on cooperatives and sub-treasuries). They party was strong in Texas and Kansas (we had a populist governor and legislature-represent!) and few other states but ultimately had trouble sustaining the necessary coalition between urban industrial workers and rural farmers, which forced them into a fusion with the democrats in 1896, who promptly ignored most of the Populist platform. Disenchanted, most of them became socialists after 1900."
"Brilliant history of the last true American revolution that ultimately failed but seriously challenged the powers that be -- i.e. Wall Street. The agrarian revolution of late 1880 stretched through the end of the century banning together millions of farmers left out in the cold by their own government. Self-organizing from the ground up, Goodwyn shares one of the most honest accounts of American grassroots revolution in a century.
"For most of my Indiana adolescence I was in love with that William Jennings Bryan speech, "The Cross of Gold," and I pined hard for the unsettled activist Midwest of the early twentieth century. This book satisfied that part of me."
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