The Civil War's Last Campaign - James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party & the Politics of Race & Section

The Civil War's Last Campaign is a narrative history of General James B. Weaver's 1880 Presidential campaign as the Greenback-Labor party candidate. In the course of its narrative of the campaign, this study describes a complex coalition with interdependent conservative, radical and pragmatic currents essential to a mass insurgency. This account of his active campaigning offers a new look at America's society, values and politics in the postwar Gilded Age.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Prologue Chapter 3 Third Party Origins Chapter 4 Towards a United Insurgency Chapter 5 The Unity Convention Chapter 6 The Southern Strategy Chapter 7 Bulldozed Chapter 8 The Bloody Shirt Chapter 9 Defeat in Victory Chapter 10 The Shadow of Fusion Chapter 11 Treachery & Betrayal Chapter 12 Epilogue Chapter 13 Conclusion Chapter 14 Appendix Chapter 15 Index

About the author

By Mark A. Lause

Product details

• Authors: Mark A Lause, Mark A. Lause, Lause Mark A.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2001
• EAN: 9780761819172
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-1917-2
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage