The Tolerant Populists

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