Report, if you have a problem with this page“ he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism. ”
Thomas Frank
From : What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
