Rural Radicals : Righteous Rage in the American Grain

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history.

In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America.

She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes in a language of hate and bigotry.

Rural Radicals breaks down the populism expressed by activists, confronts our conventional notions of right and left, and allows us to understand political factionalism differently.