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Article: Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920.(Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- March 22, 2001
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Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920. By Jim Bissett. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xviii + 249 pp. n.p.
In Agrarian Socialism in America, Jim Bissett offers a thoughtful and detailed answer to a question that has long intrigued historians of radicalism in this country: Of all places, why did rural Oklahoma embrace the Socialist Party with more passion and electoral enthusiasm than any other locale--rural or urban--during the first decades of the twentieth century? In Oklahoma, the Socialist Party was unusually successful as its candidates were elected to hundreds of positions within ...