The Know Nothing Party In Massachusetts: The Rise And Fall Of A People's Movement
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781555530716 (1555530710)
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Boston : Northeastern University Press
Pages no: 236
Edition language: English
The Know-Nothings have long been treated as a historical curiosity: a political party that flared onto the scene in the mid-1850s – even running a former president as their nominee in the 1856 presidential election – before flaming out even more spectacularly by the end of the decade. Yet given thei...