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Johnston 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey ;$aOxfordshire, England :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (421 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Society in Modern America ;$v95 225 0$aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12600-3 311 $a1-306-04603-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tList of Illustrations and Maps --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tPART I. REHABILITATING THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS --$tCHAPTER ONE. Rethinking the Middle Class --$tCHAPTER TWO. Curt Muller and the Capitalist Middle Class Social Misconstructions Of Reality --$tCHAPTER THREE. Harry Lane and the Radicalism of Middle-Class Reform --$tPART II. The Populist Political Economy of Progressive Era Portland --$tCHAPTER FOUR. The Contours of Class in Portland --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Capitalism, Anticapitalism, and the Solidarity of Middle Class and Working Class --$tCHAPTER SIX. Petit Bourgeois Politics in Portland and World History --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Will Daly --$tPART III. "The Most Complete Democracy in the World" --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Direct Democracy as Antidemocracy? --$tCHAPTER NINE. Direct Democracy's Mechanic --$tCHAPTER TEN. From the Grand Reorganization to a Syndicalism of Housewives --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN. The Political Economy of Populist Democracy --$tPART IV. A Populism of the Body --$tCHAPTER TWELVE. A Deluded Mob of Ignorant Fools? --$tCHAPTER THIRTEEN. Shutting Down the Schools --$tCHAPTER FOURTEEN. From the Death of a Child to Sedition Against the State --$tCHAPTER FIFTEEN. Direct Democracy and Antivaccination --$tCHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Success and Radicalism of Antivaccination --$tPART V. The Uses of Populism after Progressivism --$tCHAPTER SEVENTEEN. School Boards and Strikes --$tCHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Liberal Populism --$tCHAPTER NINETEEN. Corporate Tools --$tCHAPTER TWENTY. The Producer's Call and the Portland Housewives' Council --$tPART VI. Conclusion --$tCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. The Lower Middle Class in the American Century --$tCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. The Fate of Populism --$tAppendix 1 --$tAppendix 2 --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aAmerica has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist. The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. 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