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100 1 $aHunt, James L.$q(James Logan),$d1959-
245 10 $aMarion Butler and American Populism /$cJames L. Hunt.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$cc2003.
300 $axiii, 338 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-330) and index.
505 0 $aA foundation for leadership -- An alliance education -- The crisis of alliance politics -- The beginning of populist politics -- A political revolution -- Silver and the Senate -- Preparing for a new order -- Populist pinnacle -- Factional politics -- The narrowing of reform -- A prelude to disfranchisement -- The end of the people's party -- Progressive era hopes and disappointments -- The failure of Republican progressivism -- Fading memories.
520 1 $a"Exploring the life and leadership of Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of reform politics in the United States. The first full-scale biography of Butler, this book explores a host of major American political themes between 1890 and 1936, including Populism, Progressivism, 1920s Republicanism, and the New Deal." "The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform. By age twenty-eight he led the Farmers' Alliance of North Carolina; two years later he was elected president of the national Alliance. Butler served in the U.S. Senate as a Populist from 1895 to 1901 and was chairman of the national Populist Party during the critical presidential elections of 1896 and 1900. In 1896 he helped engineer the remarkable collaboration in which Populist Tom Watson ran for vice president alongside Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. On the regional and national level, Butler helped shape the strategic politics of Populism by attempting to form a new political force that would revolutionize the party system." "Departing from earlier portrayals of Butler as a political opportunist, Hunt shows him to be a genuine reformer who upheld Populist tenets in the face of enormous opposition from Democrats, Republicans, and even members of his own party. A dynamic individual with enormous capacity to mobilize and motivate, Butler sought throughout his career to convert his reform ideals, through politics, into law. His long and, ultimately, losing efforts illuminate the limitations of Populism as an ideology and as a political movement."--Jacket.
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