Right-Wing Populism in America (eBook)

Chip Berlet has written about right-wing movements for over 20 years, with bylines in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Progressive, and scores of other publications. He is senior analyst at Political Research Associates in Somerville, MA, and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash. He has contributed articles and chapters to several scholarly books and journals and his media appearances and citations as an expert include Newsweek, National Public Radio, and Nightline.Matthew N. Lyons is a historian, activist, and writer whose work has focused on systems of oppression and social movements. He is research associate for the Hansberry-Nemiroff Archival, Educational, and Cultural Fund, and author of The Grassroots Network: Radical Nonviolence in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1972-1985.

Introduction1. Rebellious Colonizers: Bacon's Rebellion and the American Revolution2. The Real People: Antimasonry, Jacksonianism, and Anti-Catholic Nativism3. A Great Mongrel Military Despotism: The First Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Chinese Crusade4. Barbarians and Plunder Leagues: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives5. 100 Percent Americanism: World War I-Era Repression and the Second Ku Klux Klan6. The Industrialist as Producer: Henry Ford's Corporate Empire7. Driving Out the Money Changers: Fascist Politics in the New Deal Era8. From New Deal to Cold War: Political Scapegoating and Business Conflict from the 1930s to the 1950s9. The Pillars of U.S. Populist Conspiracism: The John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby10. From Old Right to New Right: Godless Communism, Civil Rights, and Secular Humanism11. Culture Wars and Political Scapegoats: Gender, Sexuality, and Race12. Dominion Theology and Christian Nationalism: Hard-Line Ideology versus Pragmatism13. New Faces for White Nationalism: Reframing Supremacist Narratives14. Battling the New World Order: Patriots and Armed Militias15. The Vast Clinton Conspiracy Machine: The Hard Right on the Center Stage16. The New Millennium: Demonization, Conspiracism, and Scapegoating in TransitionConclusionsNotesBibliography