Oh Doug, get over it:
"Lawrence Goodwyn, the leading historian of Populism"
Yes, the leading historian according to Lawrence Goodwyn, not according to most contemporary scholars of populism. It is ridiculous to argue that anything bad can't be populist, or is "fake" populism. Tillman was a populist who used that as a way to spread White terror.
Read the damn book:
Berlet, Chip & Matthew N. Lyons. (2000). Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.
Webpage for book: http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/more.htm
Goodwyn is as biased for populism as Bell and Hofstadter are against it.
If the New York Review of Books can praise our book on populism you can at least recognize that it exists.
-Hmmmphhh
-Chip Berlet
-----Original Message----- From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:28 AM To: lbo-talk Subject: populism
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:34:04 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu>
Doug:
Not that it matters, but Ben Tillman wasn't a Populist. According to Lawrence Goodwyn, the leading historian of Populism, Tillman was actually responsible for killing Populism in South Carolina. He was a Democratic loyalist whenever it mattered. Maybe a lower-case "p" populist, but not the real thing.