Were the Populist and pro-silver movements of the 1880s and 1890s essentially backward-looking protests by a passing rural America, or…

Were the Populist and pro-silver movements of the 1880s and 1890s essentially backward-looking protests by a passing rural America, or…

Were the Populist and pro-silver movements of the 1880s and 1890s essentially backward-looking protests by a passing rural America, or were they, despite their immediate political failure, genuine prophetic voices raising central critical questions about democracy and economic justice in the new corporate industrial America?