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OTHERS: THIRD PARTIES DURING THE POPULIST PERIOD - Couverture souple

Richardson, Darcy

 
9780595443048: OTHERS: THIRD PARTIES DURING THE POPULIST PERIOD
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595443044 ISBN 13 : 9780595443048
Editeur : iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

This engrossing narrative chronicles the period immediately following the collapse of the Greenback-Labor Party in the 1880s and the subsequent rise of Populism a few years later. Originating in the Midwest and the South as a political response to the increasingly painful economic distress of the nation's farmers, the Populist Party-the most powerful agrarian movement in American history-achieved major-party status in several states while electing governors in Colorado, Kansas, and South Dakota. In addition to winning nearly 400 state legislative races and holding five seats in the U.S. Senate, the Populists also captured twenty-two congressional seats during their high-water mark in 1896-the largest bloc of third-party congressmen since the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s.Culminating with the party's demise in 1908, this period of rapid and unprecedented industrialization in American society also included the founding of the Socialist Party, a young and virile organization led by labor leader Eugene V. Debs that quickly eclipsed the older Socialist Labor Party on the American Left, and witnessed the venerable Prohibitionists-the country's oldest minor party-briefly emerge as the leading third-party movement in the United States.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This engrossing narrative chronicles the period immediately following the collapse of the Greenback-Labor Party in the 1880s and the subsequent rise of Populism a few years later. Originating in the Midwest and the South as a political response to the increasingly painful economic distress of the nation's farmers, the Populist Party-the most powerful agrarian movement in American history-achieved major-party status in several states while electing governors in Colorado, Kansas, and South Dakota. In addition to winning nearly 400 state legislative races and holding five seats in the U.S. Senate, the Populists also captured twenty-two congressional seats during their high-water mark in 1896-the largest bloc of third-party congressmen since the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s.Culminating with the party's demise in 1908, this period of rapid and unprecedented industrialization in American society also included the founding of the Socialist Party, a young and virile organization led by labor leader Eugene V. Debs that quickly eclipsed the older Socialist Labor Party on the American Left, and witnessed the venerable Prohibitionists-the country's oldest minor party-briefly emerge as the leading third-party movement in the United States.

Biographie de l'auteur

Darcy G. Richardson is the author of A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign and Others: Third-Party Politics From the Nation?s Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party. Long active in independent and third-party politics, he lives and works in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595443044
ISBN 13 
9780595443048
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
506
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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