Rural Radicals
Subtitle: Righteous Rage in the American Grain
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781501714030
Subjects: Radicalism; Political violence; Farmers; United states, rural conditions
Description: "Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes in a language of hate and bigotry. Rural Radicals breaks down the populism expressed by activists, confronts our conventional notions of right and left, and allows us to understand political factionalism differently."--Publisher's description.