This lively and lucidly written history examines the crucial role
third parties have played in shaping our nation's destiny,
beginning with the Anti-Masonic Party in the 1820s and concluding
with the spectacular rise and disappointing collapse of the
Greenback-Labor movement in the mid-1880s--a short-lived entity
that gave birth to the dramatic Populist movement of the following
decade.
In this sweeping historical chronicle, a marvelous mix of
history and biography, the author explains in vivid detail how two
antebellum third-party movements--the Free Soil and Know-Nothing
parties--provided the spark for the phoenix-like ascendancy of the
antislavery Republican Party in the 1850s, culminating in Abraham
Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860.
This copiously rich and brisk narrative also describes how the
Know-Nothing Party--the most powerful third-party movement in
American history--was ultimately ripped asunder over the issue of
slavery.
In the first of a riveting and powerful four-volume series on
independent and third-party politics in U.S. history, Darcy
Richardson also examines the remarkable and fascinating men and
women who took part in those political movements outside the
traditional "two-party system" and the extraordinary contributions
they made in shaping the course of America's destiny.
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