| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854–1903. By O. Gene Clanton. (Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 2004. xvi, 328 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-89745-276-3.)

O. Gene Clanton's book falls into an unusual genre: It is the second revision of a dissertation, published thirty-five years after the first revision—Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men (1969). The concept offers some interesting possibilities, in particular a long-term perspective naturally absent from a dissertator's initial book. As the title makes clear, however, Clanton is in no mood to reject his earlier praise for Populism. He asserts, for example, that Populist aspiration was no less than "an ideal of human rights, not just for the favored few but for all Americans" (p. xiii). Indeed, according to Clanton, contemporary political developments keep Populism pertinent in the twenty-first century.

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