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Author : Nancy Albaugh Leatherwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Populist Legislation in Kansas written by Nancy Albaugh Leatherwood and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : O. Gene Clanton
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631429
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Kansas Populism written by O. Gene Clanton and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Kansas has been called “the leading Midwestern Populist state,” and the Midwestern phrase was the principle one of this significant movement in American history, this first comprehensive history of the Kansas People’s party, its leaders, and their thoughts and actions is an important addition to Populist historiography. Through this study of the leadership, as well as a complete and personal background analysis of the Populist and Republican members of five Kansas legislatures, the author helps to place Populism within its proper historical context. Although Kansas Populism is shown to have had a retrogressive strain, the pervasive force of the movement is revealed as a constructive and progressive response to the technological achievements that had revolutionized agriculture and industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Their answers were not always commendable, but the Populists were the first political activists to come to grips in an effective manner with the problems created by the continuing economic revolution that uniquely characterizes modern history, and they were “intent on demonstrating, apparently, that the purification of politics was not an iridescent dream.” In the dialogue which they conducted, in the program which they advance, they assisted in launching a progressive quest that continues in our own time. Undertaken with the objective of testing recent controversial interpretations of the Populist movement, this book, according to one reader, “far surpasses” studies of Populism in other states “done long ago and innocent of modern methods.” It contains passages “almost epigrammatic in their perceptiveness” and is notable for the author’s “fairness in dealing with the evidence.” In fact, the breadth of research and the extensive annotation and bibliographical material included make this volume an important source in itself.
Author : H. Edward Flentje
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803220286
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Kansas Politics and Government written by H. Edward Flentje and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich history of Kansas politics continues to generate an abundant literature. The state?s beginning as ?Bleeding Kansas? followed by Prohibition, populism, the Progressive Era, and the Dust Bowl, through to the present day, have given local and national writers and scholars an intriguing topic for exploration. While historians and biographers shed light on pieces of this history, journalists focus on current political affairs in the state. Rarely, however, are past and present connected to fully illuminate an understanding of Kansas politics and government. ø This volume uses the prism of political cultures to interpret Kansas politics and disclose the intimate connections between the state?s past and its current politics. The framework of political cultures evolves from underlying political preferences for liberty, order, and equality, and these preferences form the basis for the active political cultures of individualism, hierarchy, and egalitarianism. This comprehensive examination of Kansas political institutions argues that Kansas politics, historically and presently, may best be understood as a clash of political cultures.
Author : Joseph J. Mason
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Populist contest for the Kansas legislature in 1892-1893 written by Joseph J. Mason and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Alfred Peffer
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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Populism, Its Rise and Fall written by William Alfred Peffer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peffer's memoir describes the development of Populism, the political maneuverings and campaign practices of the People's Party, the effect of the famous silver movement on the critical election of 1896, and the behind-the-scenes conflict that ultimately led to the dissolution of America's last great third party.
Author : Henry Fillmore Hartsell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Kansas Populists written by Henry Fillmore Hartsell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosperity suddenly ended in Kansas in the late 1880's as drought struck, crops failed, and heavily mortgaged farmers were wiped out by high interest rates and the exorbitant cost of transporting their crops to Eastern markets. At first Kansas farmers joined non-political farmers alliances but they shortly turned to politics with the organization of the People's Party in 1890. The Populists evolved a forward-looking reform program summarized in the Omaha Platform in which they demanded specific reforms in money, land, and transportation. They rapidly won wide support for their evolving reform program and controlled some part of the Kansas government after 1890. This thesis employs quantitative techniques to evaluate the behavior of Populist legislators confronted by controversial issues as they attempted to enact their reform program. The 1891 Populist controlled house considered fifteen reform bills among the controversial issues. Only five of these, including money and land reforms, became laws with the approval of the Republican senate. The 1893 Populist senate faced a similar problem with the Republican house but produced four additional reform laws. These two sessions enacted laws regulating banks, authorizing real estate redemption after foreclosure, establishing the secret ballot, and initiated a woman suffrage amendment. The Populists controlled the 1897 legislature and the executive branch. The house and the senate passed ten reform bills which became laws. These regulated business and railroads, but the initiative and referendum failed in the house. The Populist governor vetoed the railroad regulation bill because of its weakness, so transportation was not reformed. Populist legislators during the 1890's gained ability in legislative techniques and performed cohesively to enact all parts of the Populist programs applicable at the state level, except transportation reform. Ironically, most experienced Populist legislators doomed transportation reform by producing a weak railroad regulatory bill which was subsequently vetoed by the governor. Populists opposed increased spending for such projects as a new reformatory, bonds for road construction debts, and establishing a militia; they remained consistent by refusing to exempt mortgaged property from taxation. Although controlling the Kansas government a very short time, the Populists approached their specific, agrarian oriented reform goals.
Author : Scott G. McNall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226561264
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (612 download)
Download or read book The Road to Rebellion written by Scott G. McNall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-03-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index and bibliography included.
Author : Lynda Beck Fenwick
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700630287
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Prairie Bachelor written by Lynda Beck Fenwick and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People’s Party, the most successful third party in America’s history, emerged from the Populist Movement of the late 1800s. And of the People’s Party, there was perhaps no more exemplary proponent than homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner of Stafford County, Kansas. Very much a man of his community, Werner contributed columns to the County Capital and other Kansas newspapers, spoke at the county seat, regularly attended Populist lectures, and—most fortunately for posterity—from 1884 until a few years before his death in 1895, kept a journal reporting on the world around him and noting the advice of Henry Ward Beecher. With this journal as a starting point, Isaac Beckley Werner, prairie bachelor, becomes an eloquent guide to the practical, social, and political realities of rural life in late nineteenth-century Kansas. In this portrait Lynda Beck Fenwick finds the Populist thinking that would eventually take hold in numerous ways, big and small, in American life—and would make a mark the imprint of which can be seen in the nation’s political culture to this day. Expanding her search to local cemeteries, courthouses, museums, and fields where homesteaders once staked their claims, Fenwick reveals a farming community much denser than today’s, where Prohibition, women’s rights, and income inequality were shared concerns, and where enduring problems, like substance abuse, immigration, and racial bias, made an early appearance. The Populist Movement both arose from and focused upon these issues, as Werner’s journal demonstrates; and in his world of farmers, small-town businessmen, engaged women, and working people, Fenwick’s Prairie Bachelor shows us the provenance and lived reality of a rural populism that would forever alter the American political scene.
Author : Jeffrey Ostler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Prairie Populism written by Jeffrey Ostler and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostler shows that economic conditions alone cannot explain why populism flourished or foundered. Through a study of populism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, Ostler demonstrates that the strength or weakness of the two dominant political parties within a state had a significant effect on the success of a third party challenge.
Author : Donald Emil Press
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Populist Influence of Kansas Railroads, 1890-1910 written by Donald Emil Press and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kansas. Legislature. Joint Committee of Investigation of Bribery and Corruption
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Populist Legislative Investigation written by Kansas. Legislature. Joint Committee of Investigation of Bribery and Corruption and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429900326
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book What's the Matter with Kansas? written by Thomas Frank and published by Picador. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times
Author : Worth Robert Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806120720
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Oklahoma Populism written by Worth Robert Miller and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the People's party in Oklahoma, closely examines the origins, character, accomplishments, and demise of the party that, even more than the Socialist party, constituted a major electoral force in Oklahoma's early history. The author's extensive research provide the basis for lively and detailed accounts of territorial politics and local debates on major national issues of the day. He traces the origins of the Oklahoma People's party to the south-Kansas egalitarian movements of the 1880s and substantiates the Populist's claim that their movement transcended sectionalism (always an important factor in Oklahoma) and posed a major threat to mainstream-party control of the territorial government. -- from Book Jacket
Author : Gretchen Cassel Eick
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252047028
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Dissent in Wichita written by Gretchen Cassel Eick and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize, and the William Rockhill Nelson Award On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in this unexpected locus of the civil rights movement. Based on interviews with more than eighty participants in and observers of Wichita's civil rights struggles, this powerful study hones in on the work of black and white local activists, setting their efforts in the context of anticommunism, FBI operations against black nationalists, and the civil rights policies of administrations from Eisenhower through Nixon. Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries. Dissent in Wichita offers a moving account of the efforts of Lewis, Vivian Parks, Anna Jane Michener, and other courageous individuals to fight segregation and discrimination in employment, public accommodations, housing, and schools. This volume also offers the first extended examination of the Young Turks, a radical movement to democratize and broaden the agenda of the NAACP for which Lewis provided critical leadership. Through a close study of personalities and local politics in Wichita over two decades, Eick demonstrates how the tenor of black activism and white response changed as economic disparities increased and divisions within the black community intensified. Her analysis, enriched by the words and experiences of men and women who were there, offers new insights into the civil rights movement as a whole and into the complex interplay between local and national events.
Author : John Donald Hicks
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816660085
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Populist Revolt written by John Donald Hicks and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1931 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populist Revolt was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. When The Populist Revolt was originally published, the New York Times critic called it "far and away the best account of populism that we have—and one not likely to be replaced." That prophecy proved right; the book has not been replaced, and historians and critics agree that it is the definitive work on its subject. Now it is made available once more, after being out of print for some time. This is a history of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, under whose banners a great crusade for farm relief was waged in the 1880's and 1890's. As important as the chronicle of the political movement itself is the detailed picture which Professor Hicks gives of the conditions which set the stage for this agrarian revolt. He describes the inequities and malpractices which beset both the new settlers of the West and the poverty-ridden whites and Negroes of the South following the Civil War. The story of Populism itself is a lively one, people with such picturesque leaders as "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman of South Carolina, "Sockless" Jerry Simpson and Mary Elizabeth Lease—the "Patrick Henry in petticoats"—of Kansas, "Bloody Bridles" Waite of Colorado, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, Dr. C. W. Macune of Texas, James B. Weaver of Iowa, and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. In these pages, Professor Hicks has, as Frederic L. Paxson pointed out, "presented the case for Populism better than the Populists themselves could do it." Henry Steele Commanger calls the book a "thorough, scholarly, sympathetic and spirited history of the entire Populist movement."
Author : John J. Dinan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Keeping the People's Liberties written by John J. Dinan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4. The theory and design of populist institutions
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Nationalism written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
