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Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel - C. Vann Woodward

By C. Vann Woodward

Release Date: 2016-03-27

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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Thomas Watson began as one of the most radical politicians in the post-Civil War South — a Georgia lawyer who called on poor white and Black farmers to unite against railroads, banks, and the Democratic machine, and nearly pulled it off. Then the movement was crushed, the fraud and violence ground him down, and something in him broke. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel is C. Vann Woodward's masterly account of that rise and fall — the story of a man who could have reshaped American politics, and what happened to him when he failed. Woodward traces how Watson's transformation from fiery reformer into racist demagogue was not a personal aberration but a direct consequence of the defeat of the Populist movement itself — making this biography as much a reckoning with American democracy as a portrait of one extraordinary, tragic man.

Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel - C. Vann Woodward

By C. Vann Woodward

Release Date: 2016-03-27

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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Thomas Watson began as one of the most radical politicians in the post-Civil War South — a Georgia lawyer who called on poor white and Black farmers to unite against railroads, banks, and the Democratic machine, and nearly pulled it off. Then the movement was crushed, the fraud and violence ground him down, and something in him broke. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel is C. Vann Woodward's masterly account of that rise and fall — the story of a man who could have reshaped American politics, and what happened to him when he failed. Woodward traces how Watson's transformation from fiery reformer into racist demagogue was not a personal aberration but a direct consequence of the defeat of the Populist movement itself — making this biography as much a reckoning with American democracy as a portrait of one extraordinary, tragic man.

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