Week of September 15, 2008
News Item: Although presidential elections have traditionally pitted Democrats against Republicans, many third party candidates have played important roles in drawing attention to some issues that are overlooked by the major parties. Current and former third party presidential candidates include Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Ron Paul, and Ralph Nader.
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America’s Three Regimes: A new Political History
By Morton Keller. Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number: E183 .K48 2007
Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism, 1970-1992
By Timothy Evans. Berghahn Books, 1996
Call Number: JN1129 .C7 E93 1996
The Life of the Parties: A History of American Political Parties
By A. James Reichley. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
Call Number: JK2261 .R33 2000
Multiparty Politics in America: Prospects and Performance
Edited by Paul S. Herrnson and John C. Green. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
Call Number: JK2261 .M85 2002
Political Parties and the State: The American Historical Experience
By Martin Shefter. Princeton University Press, 1994
Call Number: JK2261 .S45 1994 (Also available at Jupiter and online through NetLibrary)
Politics at the Periphery Third Parties in Two-Party America
By J. David Gillespie. University of South Carolina Press, 1993
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
By Brian Doherty. PublicAffairs, 2007
Call Number: JC599 .U5 D64 2007 (Also available at Jupiter)
Third Parties in America: Citizen Response to Major Party Failure
By Steven J. Rosenstone et al. Princeton University Press, 1996
Call Number: JK2261 .R67 1996
True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S.
By Eric Thomas Chester. Pluto Press, 2004
Call Number: JK2265 .C46 2004
Two Parties-Or More?: The American Party System
By John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel. Westview Press, 2003
Call Number: JK2261 .B493 2003
Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America
By John H. Aldrich. The University of Chicago Press, 1995
Call Number: JK2261 .A46 1995