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| Title | A History of Political Parties in the United States: Being an Account of the Political Parties Since the Foundation of the Government |
| Author | James Herron Hopkins |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's sons, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 477 pages |
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