David H. Bennett

The Party of Fear

From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

Buch

Why, for two hundred years, have some American citizens seen this country as an endangered Eden, to be purged of corrupting peoples or ideas by any means necessary?To the Know-Nothings of the 1850s, the enemy was Irish immigrants. To the Ku Klux Klan, it was Jews, blacks, and socialists. To groups like the Michigan Militia, the enemy is the government itself -- and some of them are willing to take arms against it. The Party of Fear -- which has now been updated to examine the right-wing resurgence of the 1990s -- is the first book to reveal the common values and anxieties that lie beneath the seeming diversity of the far right. From the anti-… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-76721-3
EAN: 9780679767213
Produktnummer: 1621408
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Seitenangabe: 608 S.

Über den Autor

David H. Bennett is professor emeritus of history at Syracuse University, specializing in American political extremism and military, and twentieth-century American history. Books he has written include Demagogues in the Depression: American Radicals and the Union Party, 1932–1936 and The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement.