| Description |
xi, 668 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 : Early political parties: the views of the founders -- 2 : Quids, workingmen, anti-masons and nullifiers : America's earliest third parties and factions -- 3 : The struggle for freedom : the Liberty Party -- 4 : Barnburners and conscience Whigs : Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil Party in 1848 -- 5 : Free Democrats, southern rights and native Americans : third-party movements in the early 1850s -- 6 : Parties in disarray : the nativist movement gains ground -- 7 : The brass-knuckle crusade : the emergence of the know-nothing party -- 8 : A fleeting three-party system : know-nothings and republicans replace the Moribund Whigs -- 9 : Rising from the ashes : John Bell and the Constitutional unionists of 1860 -- 10 : The Civil War years : the national union party, copperheads and the Cleveland 400 -- 11 : The liberal republican movement: reformers versus politicians -- 12 : the prohibition and labor reform parties : new political movements begin to take shape -- 13 : Victoria Woodhull and the emergence of feminist politics : free love, spiritualism and equal rights in the 1872 presidential campaign -- 14 : The birth of the Greenback party : agrarian and currency reformers enter the fray -- 15 : The workingmen's party of the United States : the nation's original Marxist party -- 16 : The Iowa insurgent: the Greenback-labor party at high tide -- 17 : John P. St. John & "Beast" Butler : the prohibition and anti-monopoly parties in 1884 -- 18 : Spoilers : third-party candidates wreck havoc on the two-party system. |
| Subject |
Third parties (United States politics)
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Greenback Labor Party (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
0595317235 (pbk.) |
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0595663974 (cloth) |
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