The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History - Couverture souple

Bennett, David H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679728619 ISBN 13 : 9780679728610

Editeur : Vintage Books, 1990

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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-Catholic riots that convulsed Philadelphia in 1845 to the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, it casts a brilliant, cautionary light not only on our political fringes but on the ways in which ordinary Americans define themselves and demonize outsiders.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Books
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679728619
• ISBN 13: 9780679728610
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible