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The Civil War's Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party & the Politics of Race & Section. Mark A. Lause. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.
Mark A. Lause has written a rich book in which he argues that the Campaign of 1880 ended the Civil War and Reconstruction period, and that James B. Weaver and the Greenback-Labor Party contributed to this "non-turning point." In his prologue, the author introduces Weaver, including the interesting fact that he remained a reform-oriented Republican into the year 1877. Lause deepens our knowledge about the Greenback-Labor Party (GLP) in the book's first three chapters, which describe the party's coalescing of diverse radical/reform strands, such as the Socialistic Labor Party, the National Liberal League, and the Workingmen's Party. In fact, the author calls the GLP's 1880 convention "The Unity Convention" (65). However, by the convention's close, the GLP's insurgency had paved the way for confronting the politics of race and section nationally.
Weaver's Southern campaign included rejection of white supremacy...