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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: George, John, 1936- American extremists. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1996 (OCoLC)604973064 |
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| 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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