CONTENTS 



I. The Region of Discontent 3 



II. From Populism to Insurgency 31 



III. Early Phases of the Cooperative Movement 56 



IV. The Impact of War 87 

 V. The American Society of Equity m 



VI. The Nonpartisan League: Beginnings 149 



VII. The Nonpartisan League: Expansion and Decline 185 



VIII. The Farmers' Union 219 



IX. The American Farm Bureau Federation 255 



X. The Cooperative Movement, 1920-32 286 



XL The Farm Bloc, 1920-23 3 21 



XII. Third-Party Ideologies, 1920-24 342 



XIII. The McNary-Haugen Movement 37 2 



XIV. From Farm Board to Farm Strike 404 

 XV. The Farm Strike 435 



XVI. The New Deal Farm Program Is Born 452 



XVII. The New Deal: First Phases 471 



XVIII. The New Deal: Later Stages 502 



XIX. Epilogue 538 



Index 565 



