Laura Grattan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.

"Laura Grattan's new book is a generative re-imagining of the history and promise of populism in the United States. Creatively relating historical cases, contemporary examples, commodity culture, popular music, and canonical political theory, it dramatizes the enduring promise of populism to democratize power in the United States while affirming the need to democratize how populists define 'the people' and practice their democratic faith." - George M. Shulman, author of American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture

"In Populism's Power Laura Grattan recovers a compelling vision of aspirational democratic populism long buried by both liberal fears and reactionary appropriations. Tracing populism's richly ambivalent history across multiple sites and articulations-from Ella Baker's activism to Ernesto Laclau's political theory, from the Omaha Platform to the songs of Leonard Cohen-Grattan vividly illuminates its still-untapped potential for reviving contemporary radical democratic theory and practice." - Jason Frank, author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

"Laura Grattan is our new best guide to populism as the tradition of democratic experimentation and exuberant pluralism that produces alternative spaces and practices for all kinds of people. As she interprets texts from the Populist platform of 1892 to UndocuQueer social media, she sends up sparks of hope." - Peter Levine, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University

"Populism's Power offers a timely treatment of fundamental questions of political theory, activism, and historical interpretation. Grattan shows why radical and democratic politics cannot do without populist sensibilities and movements. In illuminating the connections between the populist imaginary and practices of organizing and struggle, and in revealing populist movements' pluralist possibilities, her original and boundary-stretching book rescues populism from mainstream critics and prominent defenders. For all that's been written on the topic, I know of no book like Populism's Power." - Mark Reinhardt, Professor of Political Science and Class of 1956 Professor of American Civilization, Williams College

"A provocative... approach to a topic that is central to modern politics" -- Choice