Populism : a psychohistorical perspective /
"Populism, according to Dr. James Youngsdale, was a pivotal force in the watershed separating nineteenth-century petty capitalism and laissez-faire liberalism from twentieth-century progressivism. It was not, Youngsdale asserts, "merely a heightened expression of middle-class disillusionme...
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Port Washington, N.Y. :
Kennikat Press,
1975.
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| Series: | Series in American studies (Port Washington, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: perspectives on populism
- Populism in American history
- Madness and reality: were populists irrational?
- From illusion to disillusionment
- Culture as a prism: populism as one color on the spectrum
- Main currents within populism
- A case study: the genesis of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
- A case study in populist disaster: the National Farmer-Labor Party of 1924
- Notes on history as overlapping paradigms.