The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974

by Samuel B. Hand

Book Overview

For over a century, from 1854, the year the party was organized, until 1958, Vermonters never failed to elect Republicans to its state and national offices, and every four years they returned a slate of electors pledged to the Republican presidential nominee. The Vermont GOP was trumpeted as the star that never set in the Republican Party's political firmament, until the decline of family farms and the influx of Democrat-leaning urbanites in the 1960s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739106007
• ISBN13: 9780739106006
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.0"