Charles Postel

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

He is an Associate Professor of History at San Francisco State University and has written op-ed pieces for politico.com and Reuters.^[1]

The Longview Institute said,

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]

Awards

• 2008 Bancroft Prize^[3]
• 2008 Frederick Jackson Turner Award^[4]

Works

• The Populist Vision. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-517650-6.
• Power and progress: Populist thought in America. University of California, Berkeley. 2002.

References

1. http://www.sfsu.edu/pdirect/47906.htm
2. "Book Review: Ruth Rosen on Charles Postel's The Populist Vision", Longview Institute
3. "Columbia Announces 2008 Bancroft Prize Winners Esteemed Historians Allan M. Brandt, Charles Postel, and Peter Silver to Receive Awards". Columbia University. March 14, 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
4. "OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winners". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 28 March 2013.

External links

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