Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy

by Steve Babson

The Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation's political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to counter corporate monopoly and profiteering tapped into a growing resentment of the rich, a resentment that grew as the economy alternated between rapid growth, producing more millionaires, and severe economic depressions, producing more poverty. The Populist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1958363790
• ISBN13: 9781958363799
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Mission Point Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"