The Populist Vision
10 best books like The Populist Vision (Charles Postel): Before I Disappear, Necessary People, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
| Author | Danielle Stinson |
| ISBN | 1250303206 |
Rose Montgomery parks her family’s trailer in Fort Glory, Oregon with one goal: to carve out a new life for herself and her little brother, Charlie. They need a fresh start for their family, and she thinks she's finally found it in a town where nobody knows them.
But Rose’s plans come crashing...
| Author | Anna Pitoniak |
| ISBN | 0316451703 |
One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win.
Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the...
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
| Author | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0807845965 |
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920. Gender and Jim Crow argues that the ideology of...
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
| Author | Nancy MacLean |
| ISBN | 1101980966 |
Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires...
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
| Author | Michael E. McGerr |
| ISBN | 0195183657 |
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most...
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
| Author | Frances Fox Piven |
| ISBN | 0394726979 |
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements...
| Author | Annelise Orleck |
| ISBN | 0807050318 |
In "Storming Caesars Palace," historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In...
Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
| Author | Kristin L. Hoganson |
| ISBN | 0300085540 |
This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders`...
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
| Author | Mae M. Ngai |
| ISBN | 0691124299 |
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Mae...
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world today
When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital of the...
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
| Author | Karen Ho |
| ISBN | 0822345994 |
Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show...
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
| Author | Michael Kazin |
| ISBN | 0801485584 |
Populist Persuasion is the gold standard for books on populism in the United States. Written by progressive historian Michael Kazin it describes the continuous presence of the populist persuasion in American politics, pretty much from its founding to today (although it was written before the Great...
Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
| Author | Jeanne Boydston |
| ISBN | 0195085612 |
Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer."...
The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State
| Author | Mary Poole |
| ISBN | 0807856886 |
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that...
