Volume 41, Number 17 · October 20, 1994
Wallace Redeemed?
By C. Vann Woodward
George Wallace: American Populist
by Stephan Lesher
Addison-Wesley/a William Patrick book, 587 pp., $29.95
The meaning of the term 'populist' has undergone remarkable changes during the past century, especially the latter half of it. In some ways these changes are comparable to those undergone by the term 'democracy' during the previous century, except that the reputation of 'democracy' changed distinctly for the better during the nineteenth century, whereas that of 'populist' sank lower and lower in the twentieth.
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