The limits of agrarian radicalism

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.