The book I found is called Third Parties in America: Citizens Response to Major Party Failure. It is written by Steven J Rosenstone.  It details historical examples of third parties and their strength and pull in politics and presidential elections from eighteen forty to nineteen eighty. Basically he describes how in a two party system as we have in America we have two major parties, this is obvious however he takes the step further to say that there are people who naturally vote for candidates outside of the Republicans and the Democrats. These people usually just want to see specific issues addressed by campaigns rather than have this issue ignored for bigger ones that don’t necessarily matter to this particular voter. When this happens the third parties big issue is usually adopted and absorbed into one of the major party’s candidate’s campaign. However the majority of Americans are socialized to voting for Republicans or Democrats and believing they are the only real option. Rosenstone makes the argument that it is an extraordinary act for an American to break from this standard. Especially because they often have to gather information about third candidates for themselves rather than have it advertised as the major parties do. Rosenstone claims that third parties gather the most support in periods of greater dissent amongst the public. For instance third parties had next to zero support in the years just after the second world war. This is because voters liked the federal government. America had won the war gotten out of the great depression and was now a super power on a world scale with the best economy in the world. However in the seventies when America was seeing a gas shortage we see the votes spike for third parties. same for 1912 up to the second world war as this was the period leading up to the great depression and through the great depression which didn’t really end till the second world war, a period of renown patriotism in America. Based on this data and analysis I think it is safe to say that thirdparties are growing in this period as we see great dissent for todays politicians especially after the NSA scandal and the wars in the middle east that many see as the fault as a corrupt government.