TY - BOOK AU - Richardson,Darcy G. TI - Others: third party politics from the nation's founding to the rise and fall of the Greenback-Labor Party SN - 0595317235 (pbk.) AV - JK2265 .R53 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - IUniverse, Inc. KW - Greenback Labor Party (U.S.) KW - Third parties (United States politics) KW - United States KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -