Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His books include The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order and Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises.

Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions— John H. Dunning PrizeRunner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions— Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Preface   xi1 Working-Class Radicalism in the Gilded Age: Defining a Political Culture   32 The Uses of Political Power: The Knights of Labor and the State   183 When Cleon Comes to Rule: Popular Organization and Political Development. Part 1: Rochester, New Hampshire   384 When Cleon Comes to Rule: Popular Organization and Political Development. Part 2: Rutland, Vermont   665 City-Building and Social Reform: Urban Workers within the Two-Party System, Kansas City, Kansas   1126 Together but Unequal: Southern Knights and the Dilemmas of Race and Politics, Richmond, Virginia   1497 Bullets and Ballots: Worker Mobilization and the Path to Municipal Socialism, Milwaukee, Wisconsin   1788 Labor, Party Politics, and American Exceptionalism   219Selected Bibliography: Primary Sources   234Index   239