Review of Populism: Its Rise and Fall.

Authors

Homer E. Socolofsky, Kansas State University

Date of this Version

1993

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:2 (Spring 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

William Alfred Peffer, from Kansas, the first Peoples Party United States Senator, wrote this analysis of Populism for the Chicago Tribune in 1899 where it was published as a series and forgotten. Almost a century later its republication establishes it as an anti-fusion insider's view of what happened to the Populist Party. Editor Peter Argersinger is the author of Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the Peoples Party and a professor of history at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.