Marion Butler And American Populism

Author : James L. Hunt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862509
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marion Butler and American Populism written by James L. Hunt and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics. The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform. By age twenty-eight he led the Farmers' Alliance of North Carolina; two years later he was elected president of the national Alliance. Butler served in the U.S. Senate as a Populist from 1895 to 1901 and was chairman of the national Populist Party during the critical presidential elections of 1896 and 1900. In 1896 he helped engineer the remarkable collaboration in which Populist Tom Watson ran for vice president alongside Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. Departing from earlier portrayals of Butler as a political opportunist, Hunt shows him to be a genuine reformer who upheld Populist tenets in the face of enormous opposition from Democrats, Republicans, and even members of his own party. A dynamic individual with enormous capacity to mobilize and motivate, Butler sought throughout his career to convert his reform ideals, through politics, into law. His long and, ultimately, losing efforts illuminate the limitations of Populism as an ideology and as a political movement.

Author : James Logan Hunt
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marion Butler and American Populism written by James Logan Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Logan Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marion Butler and the Populist Ideal, 1863-1938 written by James Logan Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James M. Beeby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032336
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Populism in the South Revisited written by James M. Beeby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist Movement in this book is defined as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, as well as the Agricultural Wheel and Knights of Labor in the 1880s and 1890s. The Populists threatened the political hegemony of the white racist southern Democratic Party during populism's high point in the mid-1890s; and the populists threw the New South into a state of turmoil Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures brings together nine of the best new works on the populist movement in the South that grapple with several larger themes—such as the nature of political insurgency, the relationship between African Americans and whites, electoral reform, new economic policies and producerism, and the relationship between rural and urban areas—in case studies that center on several states and at the local level. Each essay offers both new research and new interpretations into the causes, course, and consequences of the populist insurgency. One essay analyzes how notions of debt informed the Populist insurgency in North Carolina, the one state where the Populists achieved statewide power, while another analyzes the Populists' failed attempts in Grant Parish, Louisiana, to align with African Americans and Republicans to topple the incumbent Democrats. Other topics covered include populist grassroots organizing with African Americans to stop disfranchisement in North Carolina; the Knights of Labor and the relationship with populism in Georgia; organizing urban populism in Dallas, Texas; Tom Watson's relationship with Midwest Populism; the centrality of African Americans in populism, a comparative analysis of Populism across the Deep South, and how the rhetoric and ideology of populism impacted socialism and the Garvey movement in the early twentieth century. Together these studies offer new insights into the nature of southern populism and the legacy of the Peoples' Party in the South.

Author : Robert F. Durden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813186013
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Climax of Populism written by Robert F. Durden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely has a third political party in the United States exerted a force upon national events comparable to that of the Populists during the 1890s. This force reached its climax in the presidential race of 1896, when the national reforms epitomized in the cry for free silver were at issue. Yet despite a number of recent studies, confusion and error regarding the Populists in the crucial election of 1896 still persist. Robert F. Durden, by extensive use of the papers of Marion Butler, Populist senator from North Carolina and national chairman of the party during the campaign, sheds new light upon many points—the conduct of the St. Louis convention, the role of Tom Watson, and the fusion strategy. Durden's work is not only valuable for its clarification of the Populist campaign, but also for the example it offers of the practical working of American politics with the baffling balances among regions and groups.

Author : Carroll Leslie Pegler
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feasibility of Populist-Republican Fusion Re-evaluated written by Carroll Leslie Pegler and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Palmer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639548
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Man Over Money' written by Bruce Palmer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Charles Postel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195384717
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Populist Vision written by Charles Postel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reinterpretation of the Populist movement, this text argues that the Populists were modern people, rejecting the notion that Populism opposed modernity and progress.

Author : Norman Pollack
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013485
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book The Just Polity written by Norman Pollack and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory P. Downs
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834440
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Declarations of Dependence written by Gregory P. Downs and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and