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The Civil War Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party, & the Politics of Race & Section. By Mark A. Lause. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2001. viii, 246 pp. $33.00, ISBN 0-7618-1917-7.)
Third parties have contested virtually every national election in American history. Some have gained substantial support, enough to influence the outcome of nearly half of the presidential contests since 1820. But only one, the Republicans of the 1850s, survived as a lasting political force. Mark A. Lause explores these two sides of American third parties and their persistence despite repeated failures in his careful and thorough study of the GreenbackLabor party of 1880.
The Greenback-Labor party was formed after the railroad strikes of 1877 and the...