The Also-Rans

Episode 14: The Nature of the Beast (w/ Elizabeth Leonard)

January 15, 2023 Mark A. Lempke Season 1 Episode 14
The Also-Rans
Episode 14: The Nature of the Beast (w/ Elizabeth Leonard)
Show Notes

For the first time, The Also-Rans  explores a third-party candidate. It's Civil War General/industrialist/suffragist/abolitionist/labor advocate Benjamin F. Butler, who ran as the Greenback candidate in 1884. In Dixie, he's mostly known as the tyrannical "Beast" governing conquered New Orleans with an iron fist. Elizabeth Leonard of Colby College is our guest expert for this discussion of this divisive Civil War icon.