Tom Watson : Agrarian Rebel

• Autore: Woodward C. Vann
• Pubblicazione: Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 1963; ©1963
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.9/758/04
• Soggetto topico: Populism; Social movements
• Nota di contenuto: Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE TO THE 1955 REISSUE -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I - THE HERITAGE -- CHAPTER II - SCHOLAR AND POET -- CHAPTER III - “ISHMAEL” IN THE BACKWOODS -- CHAPTER IV - THE “NEW DEPARTURE” -- CHAPTER V - PREFACE TO REBELLION -- CHAPTER VI - THE TEMPER OF THE ‘EIGHTIES -- CHAPTER VII - AGRARIAN LAW-MAKING -- CHAPTER VIII - HENRY GRADY’S VISION -- CHAPTER IX - THE REBELLION OF THE FARMERS -- CHAPTER X - THE VICTORY OF 1890 -- CHAPTER XI - “I MEAN BUSINESS” -- CHAPTER XII - POPULISM IN CONGRESS -- CHAPTER XIII - RACE, CLASS, AND PARTY -- CHAPTER XIV - POPULISM ON THE MARCH -- CHAPTER XV - ANNÉE TERRIBLE -- CHAPTER XVI - THE SILVER PANACEA -- CHAPTER XVII - THE DEBACLE 1896 -- CHAPTER XVIII - OF REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONISTS -- CHAPTER XIX - FROM POPULISM TO MUCKRAKING -- CHAPTER XX - REFORM AND REACTION -- CHAPTER XXI - “THE WORLD IS PLUNGING HELLWARD” -- CHAPTER XXII - THE SHADOW OF THE POPE -- CHAPTER XXIII - THE LECHEROUS JEW -- CHAPTER XXIV - PETER AND THE ARMIES OF ISLAM -- CHAPTER XXV - THE TERTIUM QUID
• Sommario/riassunto: Southern Populist leader Thomas E. Watson was a figure alternately eminent and notorious. Born before the Civil War, he lived through the turn of the century and past the close of the First World War, pursuing his career in an era as changing and paradoxical as himself. In the nineteenth century, Watson championed the rising Populist movement, an interracial alliance of agricultural interests, against the irresistible forces of industrial capitalism. The movement was broken under the wheels of the industrial political machine, but survived into the twentieth century in various "fantastic shapes...to be understood mainly by the psychology of frustration." Political frustration transformed Watson as well, from liberal to racial bigot and from popular spokesman to mob leader. In this biography, through careful study of public and private writings, and through objective and tolerant exposition, Mr. Woodward has attempted to solve the enigma of this man who did much to alter his times and who was, in turn, altered by them."Mr. Woodward's biography of Watson is a model of its kind. It has all the obvious qualities of scholarship, thoroughness and impartiality. It has, in addition, a sympathetic understanding of broad social movements, a mature appreciation of character, an original interpretation of economic facts and factors, an incisive criticism of political techniques, and a literary style that is always vigorous and sometimes brilliant."--H. S. Commager, New York Herald Tribune Books"Mr. Woodward's biography of Watson constitutes the best one-volume history that has appeared of that first crop of social ideals, politically garnered in Populism...Mr. Woodward's biography is also valuable in that it is something more than the story of Populism. It is a striking portrait of a man."--W. A. White, Saturday Review of LiteratureIncludes the Author's Preface to the 1955 Reissue.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tom Watson
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157585703321
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