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WHO IS WAGGING WHOM? POWER AND THE NEW HISTORY OF AMERICAN POPULISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2014

ELIZABETH TANDY SHERMER*
Affiliation:
Loyola University Chicago
*
Department of History, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago IL, 60640, USA[email protected]

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