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After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960

After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960 Americ An c ommunist History Book Review After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960, by w illiam C. Pratt, Pierre, South Dakota, South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2022, 338 pp., US $34.95 (hardback) iSBN: 978-1-941813-36-2 The Populist Party appeared on the political scene in 1892 championing free silver, direct election of Senators, regulation of railroad shipping fees and creation of a network of federally controlled grain storage facilities, all intended to benefit the nation’s small farmers and rural communities increasingly beleaguered by global markets and distant elites. Four years later the defeat of William Jennings Bryan by William McKinley triggered the collapse of the Populist Party as political force. But the problems confronting the nation’s small farmers did not go away. The wide-ranging solutions rural radicals tried and discarded are the topic of William C. Pratt’s After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Great Plains, 1900–1960. The book is a compilation of previously published material revised into a chronological narrative marking the culmination of a distinguished forty-year career. The book begins with a survey of the historiography of rural radicalism. Although an abundance of scholarship exists on populism the subject is hard to define. Among http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Communist History Taylor & Francis

After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960

Pedersen, Vernon L.
American Communist History , Volume 22 (1-2): 3 – Apr 3, 2023
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After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960

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Americ An c ommunist History Book Review After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960, by w illiam C. Pratt, Pierre, South Dakota, South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2022, 338 pp., US $34.95 (hardback) iSBN: 978-1-941813-36-2 The Populist Party appeared on the political scene in 1892 championing free silver, direct election of Senators, regulation of railroad shipping fees and creation of a network of federally controlled grain storage facilities, all intended...
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Americ An c ommunist History Book Review After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Plains, 1900–1960, by w illiam C. Pratt, Pierre, South Dakota, South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2022, 338 pp., US $34.95 (hardback) iSBN: 978-1-941813-36-2 The Populist Party appeared on the political scene in 1892 championing free silver, direct election of Senators, regulation of railroad shipping fees and creation of a network of federally controlled grain storage facilities, all intended to benefit the nation’s small farmers and rural communities increasingly beleaguered by global markets and distant elites. Four years later the defeat of William Jennings Bryan by William McKinley triggered the collapse of the Populist Party as political force. But the problems confronting the nation’s small farmers did not go away. The wide-ranging solutions rural radicals tried and discarded are the topic of William C. Pratt’s After Populism: The Agrarian Left on the Northern Great Plains, 1900–1960. The book is a compilation of previously published material revised into a chronological narrative marking the culmination of a distinguished forty-year career. The book begins with a survey of the historiography of rural radicalism. Although an abundance of scholarship exists on populism the subject is hard to define. Among

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