TY - BOOK ID - 22701904 TI - The politics of despair PY - 2005 SN - 0813118212 1322594937 0813191300 0813149029 9780813149028 0813131901 9780813131900 9780813191300 PB - Lexington, Kentucky University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - American Tobacco Company KW - Tobacco workers KW - Tobacco industry KW - Tobacco manufacture and trade KW - Tobacco products industry KW - Plant products industry KW - History. KW - Employees KW - National Tobacco Works of New York KW - Kentucky KW - History KW - Tennessee (Etat) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22701904 AB - Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgencies of rural America, it is also one of the more misunderstood. In this first major account of the uprising in over half a century, Tracy Campbell tells the story of these embattled farmers and casts a provocative new light on the issues that fueled the Tobacco Wars.When tobacco prices fell below th ER -