Others: Third Parties During the Populist Period

by Darcy G. Richardson

This engrossing narrative chronicles the period immediately following the collapse of the Greenback-Labor Party in the 1880s and the subsequent rise of Populism a few years later. Originating in the Midwest and the South as a political response to the increasingly painful economic distress of the nation's farmers, the Populist Party-the most powerful agrarian movement in American history-achieved major-party status in several states while electing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595443044
• ISBN13: 9780595443048
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"