{"product_id":"when-sunflowers-bloomed-red-r-alton-lee-9781496216236","title":"When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Sunflowers Bloomed Red \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a welcome addition to the history of the American Midwest that should have appeal to students, scholars, and general readers.\u003c\/b\u003e--Greg Hall, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Sunflowers Bloomed Red \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers entry into the Kansas radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement influenced and transformed politics and culture in the twentieth century and beyond. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Sunflowers Bloomed Red\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the origins of agrarian radicalism in the late nineteenth-century United States. Great Plains radicals, particularly in Kansas, influenced the ideological principles of the Populist movement, the U.S. labor movement, American socialism, American syndicalism, and American communism into the mid-twentieth century. Known as the American Radical Tradition, members of the Greenback Labor Party and the Knights of Labor joined with Prohibitionists, agrarian Democrats, and progressive Republicans to form the Great Plains Populist Party (later the People's Party) in the 1890s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Populists called for the expansion of the money supply through the free coinage of silver, federal ownership of the means of communication and transportation, the elimination of private banks, universal suffrage, and the direct election of U.S. senators. They also were the first political party to advocate for familiar features of modern life, such as the eight-hour workday for agrarian and industrial laborers, a graduated income tax system, and a federal reserve system to manage the nation's money supply. When the People's Party lost the hotly contested election of 1896, members of the party dissolved into socialist and other left-wing parties and often joined efforts with the national Progressive movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. Alton Lee, Steven Cox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496216237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496216236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.20d","brand":"R. Alton Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941039276287,"sku":"9781496216236","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e56e69fe-9888-4e59-ad65-a4b26cb83dae.jpg?v=1681450558","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-sunflowers-bloomed-red-r-alton-lee-9781496216236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}