The limits of agrarian radicalism

the long version

Peter Argersinger, one of our nation's foremost historians of the Populist era, brings together in this volume some of his best and most influential essays - ranging from a study of a single election campaign to complex analyses of political organizations, legislative behavior, and government institutions. Together the essays amply display his consistently sharp and wide-ranging insights on this important moment in American life. Of special interest to political, social, rural, Western, and Gilded Age historians, this book provides a timely reminder of the political constraints on third parties in America.