Others: "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920siUniverse, 2008 - 424 páginas The fourth volume in this series on independent and third-party politics in the United States focuses on the 1920s, a period when the American people, longing for a return to "normalcy," rejected the idealism and liberalism of Woodrow Wilson's administration and strongly embraced the conservatism of Warren G. Harding and his successors, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. In electing Harding in a landslide, the American people made it clear that they had little interest in continuing the great wave of progressive reform that helped shape politics and the role of government in the United States from the turn of the century until 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I. With the exception of Robert M. La Follette's momentous campaign for the White House in 1924-a year when one out of every six voters supported the Wisconsin insurgent's independent candidacy-it was a rather bleak period for America's progressive forces and a particularly painful and lonely period for the country's minor parties. This narrative concludes with the presidential election of 1928, a year when the dignified and urbane Norman M. Thomas, Eugene V. Debs' successor on the Socialist Party ticket, polled only a tiny fraction of the more than 919,000 votes cast for his imprisoned predecessor eight years earlier. Across the board, the results were calamitous for the country's nationally-organized third parties. |
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The FarmerLabor Party of 1920 | 1 |
A Prisoner for President | 39 |
Flirting with Greatness | 68 |
Debs and Dubs | 83 |
A Return to Normalcy | 99 |
Minor Parties in the 1922 MidTerm Elections | 138 |
The Failure of National FarmerLaborism | 157 |
Fighting Bob La Follette and the Progressive Movement of 1924 | 177 |
William Z Foster and the Workers Party | 243 |
A Prophet without Honor | 254 |
Life without La Follette | 286 |
In Search of a Messiah | 308 |
The Lowest Ebb | 324 |
Early Ballot Access Laws for New and Minor Parties | 359 |
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