WATSON, Thomas Edward, 1856-1922

Library of Congress

Extended Bibliography

Brewton, William Wade. The Life of Thomas E. Watson. Atlanta: The author, 1926.

Brown, Walter J. J.J. Brown and Thomas E. Watson: Georgia Politics, 1912-1928. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1989.

Bryan, Ferald Joseph. “Thomas E. Watson versus Henry W. Grady: The Rhetorical Struggle for the Mind of the South, 1880-1890.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1985.

Carageorge, Ted. “An Evaluation of Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson as Georgia Reformers.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1963.

Cashin, Brother Edward L. “Thomas E. Watson and the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia.” Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University, 1962.

Crowe, Charles. “Tom Watson, Populists, and Blacks Reconsidered.” Journal of Negro History 55 (1970): 99-116.

De Leon, Daniel. Evolution of a Liberal: From Reform to Reaction. New York: New York Labor News Co., 1965. A series of articles published in The Daily People (1909-1910), collected and published in book form as Watson on the Gridiron (1926).

Durden, Robert F. “The ‘Cow-bird’ Grounded: The Populist Nomination of Bryan and Tom Watson in 1896.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 50 (December 1963): 397-423.

Fingerhut, Eugene R. “Tom Watson, Blacks, and Southern Reform.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 60 (Winter 1976): 324-43.

Franzoni, Janet B. “Troubled Tirader: A Psychobiographical Study of Tom Watson.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 57 (Winter 1973): 493-510.

Grantham, Dewey W., Jr., ed. “Some Letters from Thomas W. Hardwick to Tom Watson Concerning the Georgia Gubernatorial Campaign of 1906.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 34 (December 1950): 328-40.

Gravlee, G. Jack. “Tom Watson: Disciple of ‘Jeffersonian Democracy’.” In The Oratory of Southern Demagogues, edited by Cal M. Logue and Howard Dorgan, pp. 85-108. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

Hicks, Alfred H. “Tom Watson and the Arthur Glover Case in Georgia Politics.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 53 (September 1969): 265-86.

Leuchtenburg, William E., ed. The Thomas E. Watson Papers. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1991. Microfilm. 34 reels, and guide by Martin Paul Schipper.

Mellichamp, Josephine. “Thomas E. Watson.” In Senators from Georgia, pp. 218-23. Huntsville AL: Strode Publishers, 1976.

Nelson, Richard. “The Cultural Contradictions of Populism: Tom Watson’s Tragic Vision of Power, Politics, and History.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 1988): 1-29.

Ragan, Fred D. “Obscenity or Politics? Tom Watson, Anti-Catholicism, and the Department of Justice.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 70 (Spring 1986): 17-46.

___. “An Unlikely Alliance: Tom Watson, Harry Weinberger, and the World War I Draft.” Atlanta Historical Journal 25 (Fall 1981): 19-36.

Reed, Ralph. “ ‘Fighting the Devil With Fire’: Carl Vinson’s Victory over Tom Watson in the 1918 Tenth District Democratic Primary.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 67 (Winter 1983): 451-79.

Robison, Daniel M. “From Tillman to Long: Some Striking Leaders of the Rural South.” Journal of Southern History 3 (August 1937): 289-310.

Saunders, Robert M. “The Transformation of Tom Watson, 1894-1895.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 54 (Fall 1970): 339-56.

U.S. Congress. Thomas E. Watson: Memorial Addresses Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Memory of Thomas E. Watson, Late a Senator from Georgia. 67th Cong., 4th sess., 1923. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924.

Watson, Thomas E. Bethany: A Story of the Old South. 1904. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

___. Foreign Missions Exposed. 2d ed. Atlanta: Press of the Jeffersonians, 1910.

___. The House of Hapsburg: The Reigning Austrian Dynasty. Thomson, GA: Press of the Jeffersonian Publishing Co., 1915.

___. The Life and Speeches of Thomas E. Watson. 1908. 3d ed. Thomson, GA: Press of the Jeffersonian Publishing Co., 1916.

___. The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson. Thomson, GA: Press of the Jeffersonian Publishing Co., 1912.

___. The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903.

___. Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements. 1903. Reprint. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1926.

___. The People’s Party Campaign Book, 1892. 1892. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

___. Political and Economic Handbook. Atlanta: Telegram Publishing Co., 1908.

___. Popery: In Its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty. Thomson, GA: Press of the Jeffersonian Publishing Co., 1914.

___. Prose Miscellanies. 3d ed. Thomson, GA: Jeffersonian Publishing Co., 1917.

___. Sketches from Roman History. Atlanta: The author, 1908.

___. The Story of France from the Earliest Times to the Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte. 2 vols. 1899. Reprint. Thomson, GA: Jeffersonian Publishing Co., 1913.

___. Thomas Jefferson. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1900.

___. Waterloo. 1908. 2d ed. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1910.

Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel. 1938. 2d ed. Savannah, GA: Beehive Press, 1973.

___. “Tom Watson and the Negro in Agrarian Politics.” Journal of Southern History 4 (February 1938): 14-33.

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. “Tom Watson Revisited.” Journal of Southern History 68:1 (February 2002): 3-30.