Looka Yonder!: The Imaginary America of Populist Culture

From Reagan and the New Right to Thatcherism, from the success of Bruce Springsteen to the popularity of the Sun, populism is one of the central questions of the 1980s. First published in 1988, Looka Yonder! analyses the important and ambivalent terrain of American populism across a range of cultural forms, historical traditions, and political events. The book discusses the contradictory nature of these traditions, looking at the historical echoes of the 1890s Populists and the 1930s New De...