This engrossing narrative chronicles the period immediately
following the collapse of the Greenback-Labor Party in the 1880s
and the subsequent rise of Populism a few years later. Originating
in the Midwest and the South as a political response to the
increasingly painful economic distress of the nation's farmers, the
Populist Party-the most powerful agrarian movement in American
history-achieved major-party status in several states while
electing governors in Colorado, Kansas, and South Dakota. In
addition to winning nearly 400 state legislative races and holding
five seats in the U.S. Senate, the Populists also captured
twenty-two congressional seats during their high-water mark in
1896-the largest bloc of third-party congressmen since the
Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s.
Culminating with the party's demise in 1908, this period of
rapid and unprecedented industrialization in American society also
included the founding of the Socialist Party, a young and virile
organization led by labor leader Eugene V. Debs that quickly
eclipsed the older Socialist Labor Party on the American Left, and
witnessed the venerable Prohibitionists-the country's oldest minor
party-briefly emerge as the leading third-party movement in the
United States.
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