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The Great Populist Divide
By Michael Kazin |
09.05.08 | 8:28 pm
The populist hero was born on a small farm not far from the Canadian border. As a boy, he scraped together money by raising chickens and managing a grocery store. He then worked his way through an unprestigious law school, and enlisted in the Marines to More…
What Evangelical Populism Lost
By Michael Kazin |
01.27.08 | 11:05 pm
The established forces in his conservative party fear and denounce him. They cringe whenever he attacks Wall Street, vows to use government to help the poor or castigates the failed policies of the incumbent president of his own party. A devout Christian, he mixes Scripture into nearly every speech he More…
