Populist Cartoons: An Illustrated History of the Third Party Movement of the 1890s
With their ability to simultaneously exaggerate and simplify complex issues and personalities, political cartoons continue to fascinate and provoke. And the contemporary discontent with the American political and economic systems provides a sharp parallel with the tumultuous 1890s and the formation fo the Populist Party. Worth Robert Miller, professor of history at Missouri State University, is a scholar of Populism whose book Populist Cartoons should enlighten historians, general readers, and students, while evoking troubling similarities with the current financial collapse along with the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party manifestations of political unrest.... Populist Cartoons is an attractive paperback volume that deserves a wide readership and should encourage serious reflection upon our own troubled times. --Kansas History, Winter 2011-12The pictures in Miller's Populist Cartoons are worth the price of the admission. Virtually unknown, one of the missing links in any history of American political cartooning, they include some of the most unsparing works ever put on paper which, needless to say, makes them all the more valuable. The pictures afford the richest possible expression of the actual feel of Populist anger. Students of the period will find this collection irreplaceable. --Mark Wahlgren Summers, author of A Dangerous Stir and Party Games