Right-wing populism in America : too close for comfort / Chip Berlet, Matthew N. Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlet, Chip.

Contributor:

Lyons, Matthew Nemiroff.

Series:

Critical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

United States.

Right-wing extremists--United States.

Right-wing extremists.

Populism--United States.

Populism.

Physical Description:

xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2000]

Summary:

Right-wing militias and other anti-government organizations have received heightened public attention since the Oklahoma City bombing. While such groups are often portrayed as extremists, the values they espouse have influenced mainstream politics and culture far more than most Americans realize. This important volume offers an in-depth look at the historical roots and current landscape of right-wing populism in the United States.

Contents:

1 Rebellious Colonizers: Bacon's Rebellion and the American Revolution 19

2 The Real People: Antimasonry, Jacksonianism, and Anti-Catholic Nativism 33

3 A Great Mongrel Military Despotism: The First Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Chinese Crusade 54

4 Barbarians and Plunder Leagues: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives 70

5 100 Percent Americanism: World War I

Era Repression and the Second Ku Klux Klan 85

6 The Industrialist as Producer: Henry Ford's Corporate Empire 104

7 Driving Out the Money Changers: Fascist Politics in the New Deal Era 121

8 From New Deal to Cold War: Political Scapegoating and Business Conflict from the 1930s to the 1950s 150

9 The Pillars of U.S. Populist Conspiracism: The John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby 175

10 From Old Right to New Right: Godless Communism, Civil Rights, and Secular Humanism 199

11 Culture Wars and Political Scapegoats: Gender, Sexuality, and Race 228

12 Dominion Theology and Christian Nationalism: Hard-Line Ideology versus Pragmatism 247

13 New Faces for White Nationalism: Reframing Supremacist Narratives 265

14 Battling the New World Order: Patriots and Armed Militias 287

15 The Vast Clinton Conspiracy Machine: The Hard Right on the Center Stage 305

16 The New Millennium: Demonization, Conspiracism, and Scapegoating in Transition 323

Appendix A Sectors of the U.S. Right Active in the Year 2000 417

Appendix B The Producerist Narrative Used in Right-Wing Populism 419.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-471) and index.

ISBN:

1572305681

1572305622

OCLC:

43929926