Marion Butler and American Populism /
Exploring the life and leadership of Marion Butler, James Hunt offers insight into the challenge of American reform politics. He served in the US Senate and was a crucial figure in the Populist Party. In this account, Hunt seeks to show how strongly Butler believed in Populist principles.
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2003.
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Table of Contents:
- A foundation for leadership
- An alliance education
- The crisis of alliance politics
- The beginning of populist politics
- A political revolution
- Silver and the Senate
- Preparing for a new order
- Populist pinnacle
- Factional politics
- The narrowing of reform
- A prelude to disfranchisement
- The end of the people's party
- Progressive era hopes and disappointments
- The failure of Republican progressivism
- Fading memories.
