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Steven L. Piott is currently an emeritus Professor of History at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. He has also been a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at Massey University in New Zealand. He is the sole author of seven monographs—The Anti-Monopoly Persuasion: Popular Resistance to the Rise of Big Business (Greenwood, 1985); Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea (University of Missouri Press, 1997); Giving Voters a Voice: The Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in America (University of Missouri Press, 2003); American Reformers, 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Daily Life in the Progressive Era (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2011); Americans in Dissent: Thirteen Influential Social Critics of the Nineteenth Century (Lexington Books, 2014); and Daily Life in Jazz Age America (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2019).