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

by Mark A. Lause

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761819177
• ISBN13: 9780761819172
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.