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A political movement rallies against under regulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? Historians wrote approvingly of the Populists up into the 1950s. This title sets out to uncover the truth of populism, focusing on the prominent Populist state, Kansas.

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Historians will welcome Chicago's new edition of a classic work on American politics and reform--a book that deserves a new generation of readers. Full of rich evidence and lively portraits of impassioned activists, Walter Nugent's book decisively refutes the notion that Populists were reactionary and backward-looking. Rather, Nugent places them where they belong: in the grand tradition of American grassroots struggles for economic and social justice. --Rebecca Edwards, author of New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905

Fifty years ago a young historian took on the kings of the intellectual world, who were immensely frightened of The People. Walter Nugent bravely revised the revisionists --those scholars only able to see anti-Semitism, nativism, and creeping fascism in the Populism of the 1890s. Back then, The Tolerant Populists proved to be a critically important intellectual and political intervention. And now, Nugent's book is no mere historical document. In the age of the Tea Party and bitter battles over the meaning of populism, Nugent's master work remains a compelling historical analysis, as well as a testament of democratic hope. --Robert D. Johnston, author of The Radical Middle Class

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Walter Nugent is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History Emeritus at Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, most recently Into the West: The Story of Its People, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion, and Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction.

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