The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America Book

In a word: No.

(sorry, fellas, that's all I got time for today)

EDIT:

I've been asked to elaborate more on why I didn't like this book. It's been a while since I've read it, but after looking over my grad school papers from last year, I've concluded I didn't like it because I felt Lawrence Goodwyn unfairly idealized the Populists as the "last true American grassroots radicals," when they . . . weren't necessarily all that radical.

To quote from my paper comparing this book to Charles Postel's The Populist Vision:

"In Postel's analysis, as we see here, the "people" of Populist ideology is a somewhat narrow construct, comprising only certain segments of the actual population of the United States. In Goodwyn's thesis, on the other hand, Populism's "plain people" is a radically broad and inclusive concept, one which encompasses all races, ethnic groups, and religions within the bounds of the producing class. However, even without reading Postel's account, we have some reason to question the truth of Goodwyn's picture: for example, while continually asserting that Populists envisioned a utopia where all workers would be united, regardless of race or culture, he quotes (but never explains) a speech by Ignatius Donnelly which sets up a clear dichotomy between "urban workers" and "imported pauperized labor," the latter being the economic foes of the former. (Goodwyn, 168) Immigrant workers, in other words, are the enemy in Donnelly's mind; and with such an attitude, it cannot be any wonder that the Populists never built up a large following among the urban ethnic population, even setting all other factors aside."