Agrarian Socialism in America
Subtitle: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780806131481
Subjects: Philosophy; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; United States - 20th Century; Political Science; Oklahoma - State Government; Socialism; United States - State & Local - General; History - General History; Socialist Party of Oklahoma; Politics/International Relations; Oklahoma; Politics and government; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); 20th century; History
Description: "Why was Oklahoma, of all places, more hospitable to socialism than any other state in America? In this provocative book, Jim Bissett chronicles the rise and fall of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma during the first two decades of the twentieth century, when socialism in the United States enjoyed its golden age."--BOOK JACKET.