Third party matters : politics, presidents, and third parties in American history / Donald J. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Donald J., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Third parties (United States politics)--History.

Third parties (United States politics).

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Third parties have been a fixture in the American political landscape since the beginning of the two-party system. More than 300 of these groups have surfaced, but only a handful have made a real difference. Third-Party Matters: Politics, Presidents, and Third Parties in American History tells the intriguing stories of those 11 parties, starting with the antislavery Liberty Party of 1840.||The parties deemed worthy of inclusion were selected because they met at least one of three criteria. They were spoilers who changed the outcome of an election, they had an important influence on government

Contents:

Ante-bellum third parties : Liberty, Free Soil, American (Know Nothings), Constitutional Union

the revolt of the farmers : Greenback, Peoples (Populists)

The progressives : Bull Moose progressives, progressives of 1924

George C. Wallace and his American Independent Party

Ross Perot

Ralph Nader and the Green Party

Third party also rans.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216025603

9780313365928

031336592X

OCLC:

651599507