Populist Persuasion: An American History (Revised) - Softcover

Kazin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501714538 ISBN 13: 9781501714535

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2017

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"In this book, Kazin provides a significant historical view of a complex phenomenon that has had a profound impact on American life. He deserves credit for enlarging the panorama and furnishing a fresh outlook on a significant aspect of American history." * The Annals of the American Academy * "The Populist Persuasion is provocative on individual moments and advocates... [and] provides a rich source of information in both text and notes about populism's many expressions.... This well-researched and lucidly written book provides a compendium of significant cases for teachers and scholars and suggestions for future research." * Quarterly Journal of Speech * "Kazin shows populism's canny ability to mix homespun rhetoric and political savvy. The book explains something very important in American life with scrupulous fairness and a keen eye for the humanizing detail. It is as good a road map as we have to the politics of the people who work hard and play by the rules." * WALL STREET JOURNAL * "Kazin does an admirable job of tracing the transformations of the populist "persuasion," ending with its recent "capture" by the Right. Earlier populism-especially the People's party of the 1890s-was identified with the Left, concerned to limit economic inequality, committed to the rights of workers as producers, and inclined to regard political society as a moral community, to be judged by essentially religious standards." * Commonweal * "Felicitously written, densely researched, and sprinkled with astute observations, The Populist Persuasion also displays a knack for locating... political and intellectual contradictions." * The Historian * "In his new book, Michael Kazin provide a rich and thoughtful account of the evolution of populist rhetoric on the left and the right in American politics in the past century." * The New Republic * "A perceptive and passionately liberal book. Beginning with the antislavery crusade of the 1840s, Kazin skillfully surveys more than a century of mass protests, using imagery and symbolism as his guides." * New York times * "The important questions raised by the success of the populist right in the United States are illuminated in Kazin's splendid and timely book." * THE NATION * "Kazin has produced an extremely stimulating and suggestive book... his analysis of the development of American political rhetoric during the past century is consistently lucid, incisive and compelling." * History * "Kazin struggles to string together McCarthyism, the Wallace movement, and Reaganism with such disparate phenomena as Prohibition, Charles Coughlin's Social Justice crusade, the industrial unionism of the 1930s, the New Left of the 1960s, and a host of others, always trying to locate in them that elusive strain of populism, stretching and pulling, and never quite succeeding." * Electronic News * "All students of modern America can profit by considering the enduring appeal of the "populist persuasion," and Kazin has provided an excellent introduction to this complex issue in recent United States history." * The American Historical Review * "Michael Kazin introduces The Populist Persuasion with a forthright acknowledgment of the decline of the American left.... Attractively open-minded. If more minds were open, fewer of them would be boggled." * tIMES LITERARY supplement *

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In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day.

Kazin argues persuasively that the power of populism lies in its adaptable nature. Across the political spectrum, commentators paste the label on forces and individuals who really have just one big thing in common: they are effective at blasting "elites" or "the establishment" for harming the interests and betraying the ideals of "the people" in nations that are committed, at least officially, to democratic principles. Kazin's classic book has influenced debates over populism since its publication. The new preface to this edition brings the story up to date by charting the present resurgence of populist discourse, which was front and center in the 2016 elections and in the Brexit debate.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1501714538
• ISBN 13: 9781501714535
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408