Third-party matters : politics, presidents, and third parties in American history by Donald J. Green.

Green (history, Hillsborough Community College) presents a historical review of third party politics in the United States, profiling third party presidential campaigns that have met at least one of three criteria: their presence changed the outcome of an election, their major platform proposals later got adopted, or they attracted 10 percent or more of the popular vote. Chapters chronologically cover the abolitionist Liberty Party; the anti-immigrant American Party (aka the Know-Nothings); the pro-slavery, but anti-secession, Constitutional Union Party; the "revolt of the farmers" in the form of the Greenback Party and the People's Party (aka the Populists); Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Progressives and the Progressives of 1924; George Wallace and the American Independent Party; Texas millionaire Ross Perot; and Ralph Nader and the Green Party. The final chapter provides brief sketches of a broad spectrum of other third party or independent candidates who failed to meet the criteria above but are interesting for a variety of other political reasons. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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