American extremists : militias, supremacists, klansmen, communists & others

George, John 1936- (Author). Wilcox, Laird M. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Item details

ISBN: 1573920584 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9781573920582 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
443 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1996.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Originally published: Nazis, communists, klansmen, and others on the fringe, 1992.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.