Product Details

• Format: VHS
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: FFH
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• ASIN: 0736567178
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,997 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This program examines America's fascinating national experience with third parties and independent candidates, covering more than 200 years of American political history. The program looks back to the birth of the two-party system and explores the most influential third-party movements in American political history, including Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party, Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats and Henry Wallace's Progressives in the 1948 elections, George Wallace's American Independent Party in 1968, and Ross Perot. The program features interviews with leading academic experts on American politics, a rich collection of campaign memorabilia, rare archival footage, artwork, political cartoons, and campaign songs. (57 minutes).