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Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Since its inception, the United States has been characterized by a two-party political system. It is in many ways indoctrinated in laws and customs, but it does not prevent third parties from participating in the political process. Although no third-party candidate has ever won a presidential election, they have occasionally been elected to local and state positions. Additionally, with issues like environmentalism, immigration, and income inequality...
7) Angels in the machinery: gender in American party politics from the Civil War to the progressive era
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
From our nation's inception there has been a constant dynamic of tension between those political philosophies that we have labeled the left and the right, despite the fact that the vast majority of American voters really fall into the category of moderates. During the early years, the shifts between the two were dramatic and frequent: the Federalists on one side, the Jeffersonians on the other, as the young democracy came to grips with the two opposing...
9) Copperhead
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The film, inspired by actual events, takes place in upstate New York, circa 1862. Dairy farmer Abner Beech despises slavery, but just as passionately opposes the war that President Lincoln is waging, all in the name of "union", hundreds of miles away. Abner is neither a Yankee nor a Rebel. He is what is known as a "Copperhead". A local anti-slavery zealot named Hagadorn stirs up the town against him, with pamphlets and rumors that prompt shopkeepers...
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