The presidential fringe : questing and jesting for the Oval Office /
In examining over thirty unlikely presidential candidates from the past two centuries, Mark Stein reveals how fringe candidates have impacted the nation's political landscape.
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Before we begin : political tickets, please
- The first fringe candidates : "scattered" and "other"
- John Donkey : America's first cartoon candidate
- Joseph Smith : cult candidate?
- Leonard "Live Forever" Jones : High Moral Party
- George Francis Train : "Spread-Eagleism"
- Victoria Woodhull : first woman to run for president
- James B. Walker : from mainstream to fringe : Anti-Masonic Party
- Mark Twain : first celebrity candidate
- George Edwin Taylor : first African American candidate
- Will Rogers : Anti-Bunk Party
- Gracie Allen : Surprise Party
- John Maxwell : Vegetarian Party
- Homer Tomlinson : "King of the World" candidate
- Gabriel Green : Universal Flying Saucer Party
- Louis Abolafia : World Love Party
- Pat Paulsen : TV Comedian : STAG Party
- Eldridge Cleaver : Black Panther : Peace and Freedom Party
- Dick Gregory : TV Comedian : Freedom and Peace Party
- Pigasus : Yippie Candidate
- Aftershocks : nobody for president
- Joan Jett Blakk : Queer Nation candidate
- Vermin Supreme : "Why not the worst?"
- Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey : Vampires Witches and Pagans Party
- Stephen Colbert : "Americans for a better tomorrow, tomorrow"
- Frank Moore : Just Makes Sense Party
- Keith Russell Judd : Federal inmate 11593-051
- Roseanne Barr : first female serious comedian candidate
- Jimmy McMillan : Rent Is Too Damn High Party
- Naked Cowboy : independent in underpants
- Deez Nuts : Games with Balls Candidate
- Andrew Basiago : Time Travel Candidate
- Zoltan Istvan : Transhumanist Party
- In exiting : watch your step.