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Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One: Populism Bastinadoed, and Some Caveats -- 1. The Populist as Monster -- 2. Revising the Revisionists -- Part Two: The Salad Days -- 3. Kansas in the Eighties -- I. The Ethnic Pattern -- II. Prohibition and Political Futility -- III. Economic Boom and Bust -- 4. "Agitate, Educate, Organize!" -- I. The Birth of the Alliance -- II. Goodbye, My Party, Goodbye -- 5. The People's Party and Other People -- I. Fruits of Victory -- II. A Populist Profile -- III. Money Question or "Money Power"? -- IV. Englishmen and Jews -- V. Alien Land -- Part Three: The Political Years -- 6. Fusion and Victory -- I. An Arm-in-Arm Campaign -- II. Storms in the State House -- 7. Populism against Itself -- I. Fusion and Faction -- II. Women's Suffrage, Prohibition, and the APA -- III. A Three-Ticket Race -- IV. Bleak Results -- 8. Free Silver and "Undesirable Classes" -- I. A Single-Issue Campaign -- II. The Literacy Test for Immigrants -- III. After Seven Lean Years -- 9. Denouement -- I. Jingoes and Humanitarians -- II. The 1898 Campaign -- III. And Afterward -- 10. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note and Acknowledgments -- Index.

The predicament : the discontent of the Gilded Age -- The crisis of the nineties, 1889-1901 -- Progressivism takes shape, 1901-1910 -- The high tide of progressivism, 1909-1917 -- Calamities : World War I and the flu epidemic, 1917-1919 -- Ebb tide, 1919-1921

After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? This book offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America, including its origins guiding principles, major leaders, and major accomplishments.