The populist persuasion : [electronic resource] an American history / Michael Kazin.
By: Kazin, Michael.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1995Description: x, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0465037933 :; 9780465037933.Subject(s): Populism -- United States -- History | United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933 | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century | PopulismeDDC classification: 973 Other classification: 15.85 Online resources: Book review (H-Net) | Book review (H-Net) | Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open LibraryIncludes bibliographical references (p. [358]-364) and index.
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 -- Conclusion : Populisms of decline.