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Subtitle: third party politics from the nation's founding to the rise and fall of the Greenback-Labor Party
By: Darcy G. Richardson.
Publisher: IUniverse, Inc.; iUniverse.com; iUniverse
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 668
Subjects: Greenback Labor Party (U.S.); Third parties (United States politics); United States -- Politics and government
Other titles: Third party politics from the nation's founding to the rise and fall of the Greenback-Labor Party
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1:; title: Early political parties: the views of the founders -- -- 2:; title: Quids, workingmen, anti-masons and nullifiers: America's earliest third parties and factions -- -- 3:; title: The struggle for freedom: the Liberty Party -- -- 4:; title: Barnburners and conscience Whigs: Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil Party in 1848 -- -- 5:; title: Free Democrats, southern rights and native Americans: third-party movements in the early 1850s -- -- 6:; title: Parties in disarray: the nativist movement gains ground -- -- 7:; title: The brass-knuckle crusade: the emergence of the know-nothing party -- -- 8:; title: A fleeting three-party system: know-nothings and republicans replace the Moribund Whigs -- -- 9:; title: Rising from the ashes: John Bell and the Constitutional unionists of 1860 -- -- 10:; title: The Civil War years: the national union party, copperheads and the Cleveland 400 -- -- 11:; title: The liberal republican movement: reformers versus politicians -- -- 12:; title: The prohibition and labor reform parties: new political movements begin to take shape -- -- 13:; title: Victoria Woodhull and the emergence of feminist politics: free love, spiritualism and equal rights in the 1872 presidential campaign -- -- 14:; title: The birth of the Greenback party: agrarian and currency reformers enter the fray -- -- 15:; title: The workingmen's party of the United States: the nation's original Marxist party -- -- 16:; title: The Iowa insurgent: the Greenback-labor party at high tide -- -- 17:; title: John P. St. John & "Beast" Butler: the prohibition and anti-monopoly parties in 1884 -- -- 18:; title: Spoilers: third-party candidates wreck havoc on the two-party system.