Contents[1] [Volume Three]
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
II. The Democracy of the Age of Innocence
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I. Capitalistic Encroachments: Due to inadequate democratic machinery. The movement to democratize government. Plutocracy content with the machine which it controlled; hence radical proposals must issue from the discontented. After 1870, with few exceptions, popular democratic thinking done west of the Allegheny Mountains
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II. Third-party Movements. A summary of democratic proposals of previous movements
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III. [The Populistic Program: Income tax; the initiative and referendum; the recall; direct primary; Australian ballot; popular election of Senators; sub-treasuries; proportional representation] IV. [William Jennings Bryan and the Last Battle]
III. Literature and the Middle Border
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I. [Edward Eggleston and Frontier Realism]
II. [Whitcomb Riley and Folk Romance]
III. Hamlin Garland and the Middle Border. Joseph Kirkland, Harold Frederic
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Part II
Proletarian Hopes
I. [Plutocracy and the Workingman: Disruption of industry—strikes and lockouts in the Gilded Age. Bitterness of conflict. The discovery of the injunction]
I. [Industrialism and the American theory of freedom: Rise of labor unions. Passing of the frontier. Incoming of German Socialists and the recovery of the doctrine of class war lost since the eighteenth century]
II. [The first solution—Syndicalism: T. V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor]
III. [The second solution—craft unionism: Gompers and the A. F. of L. A middle-class solution]
II. [The Rise of the Left]
I. [The Menace of Socialism: The Haymarket riot; Governor Altgeld]
II. [Leaders of the Left: Daniel De Leon; Eugene Debs; Victor Berger]
III. The Quest of Utopia
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I. Edward Bellamy and Looking Backward
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II. [After Bellamy: “Nationalism”; Tourgée’s Murvale Eastman]
IV. [The Darkening Skies of Letters: The clouds gathering on the “gay” horizon of American optimism. Changes in the temper of scientific thought point to determinism. A gloomier realism on the way, coming first from the West]
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I. [Edwin Markham and “The Man with a Hoe”]
II. [The Rise of Naturalism: Stephen Crane; Frank Norris[2]]
III. [Fiction Discovers the City]
Part III
The Hesitant South
I. [Two Worlds: The aristocratic clinging to the romance of the past; the plebeian agrarian joining with the Middle Border in its protest against plutocracy. Tom A. Watson. The beginnings of industrialism that proposed to exploit the cotton and iron of the South]
II. [The Romance of the Past: Thomas Nelson Page and the plantation tradition; Joel Chandler Harris and the romance of the negro; Mary Murfree and the romance of the mountaineer; George Washington Cable and the romance of the creole]
III. [Sidney Lanier—the poet of the South[3]]
IV. [Henry W. Grady and the Surrender to the Middle Class]
V. [The Southern Intellectual: James Branch Cabell;[4] Ellen Glasgow; W. W. Woodward]
Book Three: The New America