The Natural Law Party: A Reason to Vote Breaking the Two-Party Stranglehold and Bringing Effective New Solutions to America's Problems

Roth, Robert

ISBN 10: 0312193041 / ISBN 13: 9780312193041

Published by St Martins Press, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., 1998

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First edition, signed by author. DJ has small tear, edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. No writing in text. Very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Natural Law Party: A Reason to Vote Breaking the Two-Party Stranglehold and Bringing Effective New Solutions to America's Problems
• Publisher: St Martins Press, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312193041
• ISBN 13: 9780312193041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • ABE
  • Political Science

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Synopsis

The press secretary for the Natural Law Party, America's fastest growing new political party, presents its platform for the 1998 and 2000 elections, discussing its emphasis on environmental conservation, a prevention-oriented approach to public policy, support for renewable resources, and more. 25,000 first printing.

Reviews

Third parties maintain that the electoral game is rigged against them. Whereas the major parties needn't collect a single signature to place their presidential candidates on the ballot, a new party, Roth protests, has to gather five million valid John Hancocks to present its standard bearer to voters in all 50 states. Press secretary of the Natural Law Party during the 1996 campaign, Roth amasses anecdotes of his party's unsuccessful lawsuits to get its candidate, John Hagelin, on the same dais with Clinton and Dole. As it was, Hagelin and his political precepts earned only several hundred thousand votes. Those voters had to be concerned with health, nutrition, and mental relaxation, judging from the party supporters Roth introduces, who declaim the party's opposition to genetic engineering, its promotion of aeolian power generation, and its advocacy of transcendental meditation as a panacea for war and crime. Despite bumpy prose, Roth conveys the Natural Law Party's beliefs well enough and concludes with the 1998 edition of its platform. Gilbert Taylor

Roth, press secretary of the Natural Law Party, proposes giving the American voter an alternative to the two mainstream political parties: the Natural Law Party, founded in 1992 and now set to run hundreds of candidates in the 1998 elections. The book is divided into eight sections with headings like "The Battle," "The Principles," and "The Applications." Within each section are chapters such as "Does Politics Matter Anymore?" and "Media Tips from the Front Lines," to name just a couple. Roth states the party position across a broad spectrum of political and social issues, showing its emphasis on an "organic" approach to social issues. Solutions to national problems are described in some detail, and transcendental meditation is a major factor in many of them. As the author and many others have pointed out, the positions taken by third parties often become planks of major party platforms within a few years. If for no other reason, the Natural Law Party and other third parties deserve our scrutiny in the run-up to the 2000 elections. Recommended for large public libraries.?Joseph Toschik, Half Moon Bay P.L., CA
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