Charles Postel

Charles Postel is an American historian specializing in politics, reform movements, populism, and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Life

He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He is a professor of history at San Francisco State University.^[1]

Awards

• 2008 Bancroft Prize
• 2008 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• 2009 Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Honorable Mention

Works

• The populist vision. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780195176506. http://books.google.com/books?id=7dEFFUTZ5U8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Charles+Postel&lr=&ei=wOnwSvnTII-SNpLjjNUL#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Power and progress: Populist thought in America. University of California, Berkeley. 2002. 

Reviews

Elegantly written, meticulously researched, The Populist Vision is an enthralling history of the movement that created the most pervasive political impulse in American politics. Postel’s book has won both the Frederick Jackson Turner and Bancroft awards, which it justly deserves. His work also helps us to understand the actual Populist Vision that lies behind the superficial and shallow rhetoric to which we’ve been subjected during this election year.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.sfsu.edu/pdirect/47906.htm
2. ^ "Book Review: Ruth Rosen on Charles Postel's The Populist Vision", Longview Institute

External links

• "Interview with Charles Postel", New Books in History, Marshall Poe and Charles Postel. (2009)

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