Piott, Steven L. 1948-

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Piott, Steven L. 1948-

PERSONAL:

Born February 9, 1948, in Los Angeles, CA. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Utah, B.A., 1970, M.A., 1972; University of Missouri at Columbia, Ph.D., 1978.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, ClarionUniversity of Pennsylvania, Wood St., Clarion, PA 16214. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer. Clarion University, Clarion, PA, professor of history, 1985—. Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Fulbright teaching fellow, 1992.

WRITINGS:


(With Richard Jensen and Christopher C. Gibbs)Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters,Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1983.

The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rose of Big Business in the Midwest,Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1985.

Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea,University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1997.

Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 2003.

American Reformers, 1870-1920: A Reader, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), in press.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


History: Review of New Books, summer, 2003, John W. Malsberger, review of Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America, p. 145.

Political Science Quarterly, summer, 2004, Thad Kousser, review of Giving Voters a Voice, p. 377.