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Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel: Agrarian Rebel Paperback - 2014
by C. Vann Woodward
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- Title Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel: Agrarian Rebel
- Author C. Vann Woodward
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 542
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Martino Fine Books
- Date 2014-03-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9781614275961 / 1614275963
- Weight 1.81 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.21 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 3.07 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: South
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
by Woodward, C. Vann
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Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2014. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 518pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This work is C. Vann Woodward's classic biographical study of the Georgia agitator, born of a slave-owning family reduced to poverty after the Civil war, when his family declined from the plantation owner class to the share-cropper status. Always an enemy of industrialism, Watson took the side of the southern farmer. He was elected to Congress in 1890, later became a Populist leader, and in 1904 and 1908 he ran for president on the Populist ticket. Although Thomas E. Watson championed the rising Populist movement at the turn of the 19th century--an interracial alliance of agricultural interests fighting the forces of industrial capitalism--his eventual frustration with politics transformed him from liberalism to racial bigotry, from popular spokesman to mob leader.…
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