Table of Contents:
  • Modern times
  • I: Farmers
  • Push and energy : boosterism and rural reform
  • Knowledge and power : machinery of modern education
  • A better woman : independence of thought and action
  • A farmers' trust : cooperative economies of scale
  • II: Populists
  • Business politics : state models and political frameworks
  • Race progress : shaping a new racial order
  • Confederation : urban, labor, and nonconformist reform
  • Shrine of science : innovation in populist faith
  • Conclusion : populist defeat and its meaning.