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American extremists : militias, supremacists, klansmen, communists & others

Author: John George; Laird M Wilcox
Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Discusses the characteristics of political extremism and extremists, summarizing the pre-1960 historical background of American extremist movements; reviews conspiracy theories and their validity, and examines a number of contemporary groups on opposite ends of the political scale.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
George, John, 1936-
American extremists.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1996
(OCoLC)604973064
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John George; Laird M Wilcox
ISBN: 1573920584 9781573920582
OCLC Number: 34558949
Notes: Originally published: Nazis, communists, klansmen, and others on the fringe, 1992.
Description: 443 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: It's not new: historical perspective on American extremism prior to 1960 --
What is extremism? Style and tactics matter more than goals --
Motivations: why they join, stay, leave --
Communist Party USA --
Socialist Workers Party --
Black Panther Party --
Students for a Democratic Society --
Progressive Labor Party --
Workers World Party --
Revolutionary Action Movement --
Revolutionary Communist Party --
Communist Workers Party --
Reverend Billy James Hargis and his Christian Crusade --
The John Birch Society: a plot to sell books? --
The Christian Right --
Willis Carto and Liberty Lobby --
Robert Bolivar DePugh and the Minutemen --
The militias --
Gerald L. K. Smith and Christian Nationalist Crusade --
The LaRouche Network --
Jewish Defense League --
The Nation of Islam --
Assorted Neo-Nazis --
National States Rights Party --
Ku Klux Klans.
Other Titles: Nazis, communists, klansmen, and others on the fringe
Responsibility: John George & Laird Wilcox.

Abstract:

Discusses the characteristics of political extremism and extremists, summarizing the pre-1960 historical background of American extremist movements; reviews conspiracy theories and their validity, and examines a number of contemporary groups on opposite ends of the political scale.

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