The emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere greater than in the domain of government. The growth of the city and its evolution into the metro-city has led to complex and intense problems. These problems command the concern and resources of all governments, federal as well as state and local; they have emerged as national problems. Coincident with national involvement in problems once held to be local has come a rise in federal government relations with the cities. Such relations, though in fact of long...

Roscoe Martin's study of the People's Party in Texas was a pioneering analysis of the state populist movements and long considered one of the best. The People's Party was an influential force in United States politics in the last decade of the nineteenth century, especially in the western and southern states. Martin's study of third-party politics in Texas, as well as being an important work in Texas history, provides much insight into the national radical movement of the 1890s.