Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-364) and index
Introduction : Speaking for the people -- Inheritance -- The righteous commonwealth of the late nineteenth century -- Workers as citizens : labor and the Left in the Gompers era -- Onward, Christian mothers and soldiers : the prohibitionist crusade -- Social justice and social paranoia : the Catholic populism of Father Coughlin -- The many and the few : the CIO and the embrace of liberalism -- A free people fight back : the rise and fall of the Cold War Right -- Power to which people? : the tragedy of the white New Left -- Stand up for the working man : George Wallace and the making of a New Right -- The conservative capture : from Nixon to Reagan -- Conclusion : Populisms of decline