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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gene Clanton. Congressional Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1998. Pp. xii, 228. $35.00.

Gene Clanton has devoted his long and productive career as a scholar to understanding Populism and its context. We are in his debt for that and for this rich study of a neglected subject: what the Populists said and how they voted in Congress during the crisis of the 1890s. 1

Clanton is a significant figure in the proud tradition of progressive historians sympathetic to Populism that leads from Vernon Louis Parrington and John D. Hicks through C. Vann Woodward to Lawrence Goodwyn. His thesis here is that the diverse members of the leadership of the Populist Party can best be understood as united in a common commitment to "human rights," as contrasted to the devotion of their enemies to property rights and the special interests of large corporations, trusts, and monopolies. These sound very much like the terms that the Populists would use to describe themselves, because the reader is the "virtual" occupant of a seat in the House or the Senate gallery listening to the Populists debate the members of the major parties. . . .

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