Marion Butler and American Populism
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Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics. 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. 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.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780807862506
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Political Biographies
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. MARION BUTLER
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. 1 A FOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP
  9. 2 AN ALLIANCE EDUCATION
  10. 3 THE CRISIS OF ALLIANCE POLITICS
  11. 4 THE BEGINNING OF POPULIST POLITICS
  12. 5 A POLITICAL REVOLUTION
  13. 6 SILVER AND THE SENATE
  14. 7 PREPARING FOR A NEW ORDER
  15. 8 POPULIST PINNACLE
  16. 9 FACTIONAL POLITICS
  17. 10 THE NARROWING OF REFORM
  18. 11 A PRELUDE TO DISFRANCHISEMENT
  19. 12 THE END OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY
  20. 13 PROGRESSIVE ERA HOPES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS
  21. 14 THE FAILURE OF REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVISM
  22. 15 FADING MEMORIES
  23. NOTES
  24. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  25. INDEX