Coxey's army
Subtitle: popular protest in the gilded age
By: Benjamin F. Alexander
Series: Witness to history; Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781421416205; 9781421416212
Subjects: Unemployed; Coxey's Army; Labor movement; Working class; Political activity; History
Description: "In this concise and gripping narrative, Benjamin F. Alexander contextualizes the march by vividly describing the misery wrought by the Panic of '93. Alexander brings both Coxey and his fellow leaders to life, along with the reporters and spies who traveled with them and the diverse group of captivated newspaper readers who followed the progress of the marches and train heists. Coxey's Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites--far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks--fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march. Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years later, emerged as the New Deal."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : May 1, 1894; title: The gilding of an age; title: Hard times : the crisis of the 1890s; title: Petition in boots; title: Other regiments; title: Reception in the capital; title: Epilogue : legacies and enduring questions.