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Our Constitution promises a government of the people, by the people, and for the people - but who are "the people"? And who can honestly claim to speak for "the people"? Here, in the first comprehensive history of populism in our nation, Michael Kazin examines the strange career of populist politics from the era of Thomas Jefferson to the era of William Jefferson Clinton.
Once identified with the dispossessed, the poor and exploited workers from farm and factory, populism in recent years has been brought to the forefront of the political landscape, embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson and glibly applied to figures ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Rush Limbaugh. Kazin calls populism an impulse rather than an ideology.
He defines it as a mode of political persuasion that combines anti-elitism, adoration of the common people (usually defined as hardworking, pious, and, until quite recently, white), and a belief in the American ideal of democracy that the power brokers in business, government, and academia have betrayed.
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The populist persuasion: an American history
1998, Cornell University Press
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The Populist Persuasion: An American History
January 1996, Basic Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-370) and index.
Originally published: New York : BasicBooks, c1995.
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"IN 1892, Georgia Populist leader Tom Watson wrote a brief synopsis of American history intended for use in that fall's election campaign."
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