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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Introduction 'What Is Populism?' -- Margaret Canovan 1981 -- The Ideational Approach -- Ernesto Laclau (2007) -- Discourse Approaches to Populism -- Greimasian Narrative -- Chapters in this Book -- 2: The People's Party -- Jefferson and Jackson -- People's Party Platform: Preamble -- 1892 People's Party Platform -- 1896 People's Party Platform -- James B. Weaver, A Call to Action -- Conclusion -- 3: Prairie Populism -- Introduction -- The Farmers' Platform, 1918 -- The Progressive Party -- William Aberhart and Social Credit -- William Aberhart's Broadcasts -- The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation -- Tommy Douglas' Mouseland -- Conclusion -- 4: Constructed Populism: The Reform Party of Canada -- Introduction -- The Origins of the Reform Party -- Constitutional Reform: "A Fair Shake for the West!" -- Overt Populism -- Conclusion -- 5: Modern American Populism: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders -- Donald Trump -- Populism as Political Style -- Wilmington Ohio, September 1, 2016 "I Am Your Voice" -- Rupture -- Youngstown, Ohio Speech, July 25, 2017 "Make America Safe Again" -- Youngstown Speech, Part I -- Youngstown Speech, Part 2 -- Youngstown Speech, Part 3. The Politics of Fear -- January 6, 2021 Speech, 'The Numbers Speech,' Saving Democracy -- Weak Republicans -- The Voting System and The Numbers -- Bernie Sanders, The Survivor -- Council Bluffs, Iowa Speech, Rural America -- Part 1, Welcome to the Revolution -- Part 2, Unmet Needs -- Part 3, Rural America -- Conclusion -- 6: Ford Nation -- Introduction -- Transportation: Subways, Subways, Subways -- FordNation -- New Subway Proposal Announcement -- Doug Ford, 2018 Provincial Election, "A buck a beer" -- Thunder Bay, May 2, 2018 -- Ford Nation Facebook Ontario Place -- Final Debate Election 2018 -- Conclusion.

This volume offers a significant and engaging overview of the phenomenon of populism in time and in the two countries of the United States and Canada. The focus on populism as a political discourse, both in the rhetorical sense, is one particular merit of this book helping to understand this extremely topical political phenomenon. Anyone concerned about how populist discourse works will benefit from this study. Francesca De Cesare, University of Naples, Italy This book examines the origins of populism in Canada and the United States and its development into a powerful and at times disturbing political force. Focus is on five historical periods: The Populist Party of the United States in the 1890s, Prairie Populism in Canada during the early and mid-20th century, the Reform Party of Canada in the 1980s and 90s, the left and right populism of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the early 21st century, and the phenomenon of Ford Nation in modern day Ontario, Canada. The author extends Ernesto Laclaus analysis of populism as a logic in On Populist Reason (2005) to explore how a people come into being in their conflict or clash with an elite, defined by Chartists in the 19th century as providing a contrast between producers and non-producers. The author examines the linguistic media (speeches, books, radio, twitter, Facebook) used in populist discourse to covey a political message and to articulate the needs, wishes and will of a newly born people in their numerous guises and expressions, from "The plain people," "The little guy," "Brothers and sisters." This volume will be of interest to researchers in an interdisciplinary range of fields, including discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, rhetoric and stylistics, political communication, social movements theory, media studies, and Canadian and American history. Marcia Macaulay is an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at Glendon College, York University, Canada. Her work focusses on linguistic variation, speech act theory, stylistics, political discourse and gender and language. She is the co-editor of Pragmatics and Context (2012) and the editor of Populist Discourse: International Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Oral and Written Narrative -- Personal Narrative: The Boy in the Mirror -- Historical Narrative: The Legend of Gunninute the Outlaw -- Mythic Narrative: The Legend of Astace -- Conclusion -- 3 Oral and Written Description -- Process Description: Cattle Driving -- Conclusion -- 4 Oral and Written Exposition -- Popular Exposition: The Definition of a Lover -- Conclusion -- 5 Oral and Written Instruction -- Popular Instruction: How to Make Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese -- Conclusion -- 6 Oral and Written Argument -- Socio-Political Argument: The New Cold War -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix: Texts Used -- The Boy in the Mirror/Oral Account of Martin Starret -- The Boy in the Mirror/Written Account of Martin Starret -- The Story of Gunninute/Oral Account of Martin Starret -- The Story of Gunninute/Written Account of Martin Starret -- Astace (Carrier Creation Myth)/Oral Account of Martin Starett -- Astace: The Indian/Written Account of Martin Starret -- Cattle Driving/Oral Description -- Cattle Driving/Written Description -- from The Politics of Love/Oral Exposition -- from Loving Each Other/Written Exposition -- Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese/Oral Instruction -- Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese/Written Instruction -- Noam Chomsky and Fred Halliday in Conversation -- from The Making of the Second Cold War/Halliday -- from "Towards a New Cold War"/Chomsky -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.