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Politics At the Periphery : Third Parties in Two-party America
author
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Gillespie, J. David.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0872498433
print isbn13
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9780872498433
ebook isbn13
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9780585342702
language
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English
subject
Third parties (United States politics)--History.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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JK2261.G55 1993eb
ddc
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324.273/8
subject
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Third parties (United States politics)--History.
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Politics at the Periphery
Third Parties in Two-Party America
J. David Gillespie
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Copyright 1993 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gillespie, J. David, 1944 Politics at the periphery : third parties in two-party America / J. David Gillespie. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87249-843-3 1. Third parties (United States politics)History. I. Title. JK2261.G55, 1993 324.273'8dc20 92-43973
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Contents
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
Chapter One: On the Outside Looking in: Third Parties and the Political Mainstream
6
Chapter Two: Brightly Blazing Candles: Transient National Third Parties in the Nineteenth Century
41
Chapter Three: Candles in the Wind: Transient National Third Parties in the Twentieth Century
80
Chapter Four: Not Whistling Dixie: Women, African-Americans, and the Third-Party Course
140
Chapter Five: Sustained by Faith: Doctrinal Parties
171
Chapter Six: Non-National Significant Others: Important State and Community Parties
226
Chapter Seven: What Manner of Men and Women? Beliefs and Personalities of Third-Party Leaders
267
Chapter Eight: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: The Third-Party Legacy and the Future
283
Appendix One: Returns from November 3, 1992, Presidential Election
291
Appendix Two: Addresses of Third Parties
293
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Appendix Three: Third-Party and Independent Candidacies Receiving at Least One Percent of Popular Vote for President
295
Appendix Four: Third-Party Presence (Excluding Independents) in U.S. Congress
298
Appendix Five: Third-Party and Independent Gubernatorial Popular Elections
302
Appendix Six: Study Statements and Factor Scores
306
Glossary
311
Suggestions for Further Reading
317
Index of Parties, Associations, and People
323
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Preface
You are entitled to know something about my approach to the topic of this book. I am not now, nor have I ever been, enrolled in any American third political party. Much that we associate with mainstream American politics I find to be bland and uninspiring. America's noblest political figures have been men and women possessing vision, though admittedly vision needs some tempering by pragmatism. I believe that the structural barriers placed on third-party participation in American politics have been more forbidding and debilitating than behooves the world's leading democratic nation.
I harbor considerable respect for the impulse to step outside two-party bounds, to craft third parties. That is because the impulse is driven so often by a vision of what should be. This does not mean that I find every third party's vision appealing. Some, I think, merit admiration, consideration, and possible devotion. Others are fun because they are so eccentric. Some third-party visions are mean-spirited, nasty, even downright dangerous.
I have devoted a lot of time over the last fifteen years to the thrill of the chase, in preparing for what you are about to read. I have pored over hundreds of government and private documents, election returns, financial records, biographies of third-party leaders, party platforms, newspapers, journals, and other materials. Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project supplied information about the far right; the Hoover Institution at Stanford University provided data on the radical left. I spent half of a summer day in a cabin on Lake Superior talking Depression-era politics with a Farmer-Laborite ex-governor of Minnesota. The quest took me to the Arlington headquarters of a Nazi party, to the Manhattan home of the Communist party. I have attended third-party conventions and other meetings. I sat for an afternoon in a federal court listening to testimony in a Socialist Workers party suit against the FBI.
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