Right-wing populism in America : too close for comfort /

Overview: Right-wing militias and other antigovernment organizations have received heightened public attention since the Oklahoma City bombing. While such groups are often portrayed as marginal extremists, the values they espouse have influenced mainstream politics and culture far more than most Ame...

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Main Author: Berlet, Chip (Author)
Other Authors: Lyons, Matthew Nemiroff
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Guilford Press, [2000]
Series:Critical perspectives.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1: Rebellious colonizers: Bacon's rebellion and the American revolution
  • 2: Real people: Antimasonry, Jacksonianism, and anti-Catholic nativism
  • 3: Great mongrel military despotism: first Ku Klux Klan and the anti-Chinese crusade
  • 4: Barbarians and plunder leagues: Theodore Roosevelt and the progressives
  • 5: 100 percent Americanism: World War I-era repression and the second Ku Klux Klan
  • 6: Industrialist as producer: Henry Ford's corporate empire
  • 7: Driving out the money changers: fascist politics in the New Deal era
  • 8: From New Deal to Cold War: political scapegoating and business conflict from the 1930s to the 1950s
  • 9: Pillars of U S populist conspiracism: John Birch society and the liberty lobby
  • 10: From old right to new right: Godless communism, civil rights, and secular humanism
  • 11: Culture wars and political scapegoats: gender, sexuality, and race
  • 12: Dominion theology and Christian nationalism: hard-line ideology versus pragmatism
  • 13: New faces for white nationalism: reframing supremacist narratives
  • 14: Battling the new world order: patriots and armed militias
  • 15: Vast Clinton conspiracy machine: hard right on the center stage
  • 16: New millennium: demonization, conspiracism, and scapegoating in transition
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Appendix A: Sectors of the U S Right Active in the year 2000
  • Appendix B: Producerist narrative used in the right-wing populism
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the authors.