TY - JOUR
AU - Boyte, Harry C.
AB - 1594 The Journal of American History March 1996 the city, and to the 1917 full-scale battle be­ at suggesting solutions. Michael Kazin's new tween Black soldiers and white civilians in book, The Populist Persuasion, is a case in Houston, which resulted in fifteen dead and point. The book effects a fusion of arresting twenty-one injured. Basing his stories on in­ irony: democratic sympathies toward ordinary depth research, Christian has added fresh de­ people and their struggles freighted with the tails to those two incidents. More impor­ stance of the condescending outsider. While tant, he has drawn valid conclusions highly championing his fellow citizens' right to voice, critical of the white establishment in the han­ Kazin is dismayed by what he sees as their dling of these events. We now know the whole bigotry and lack of intelligence. sorry truth about the Brownsville and Hous­ At its best, The Populist Persuasion extends ton affairs. the tradition of historical analysis that has doc­ But this book is about more than Browns­ umented the tie between work and democ­ ville and Houston. Beginning with a clash in racy. Eric Foner, Sean Wilentz, RobenWiebe, 1899 in Texarkana between white lawmen and and others 
TI - The Populist Persuasion: An American History. By Michael Kazin. (New York: Basic-Books, 1995. xii, 381 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-465-03793-3.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2945377
DA - 1996-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-populist-persuasion-an-american-history-by-michael-kazin-new-york-4jSp9iH0VA
SP - 1594
EP - 1595
VL - 82
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -