Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
In: Critical Perspectives Ser
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Rebellious Colonizers: Bacon's Rebellion and the American Revolution -- 2. The Real People: Antimasonry, Jacksonianism, and Anti-Catholic Nativism -- 3. A Great Mongrel Military Despotism: The First Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Chinese Crusade -- 4. Barbarians and Plunder Leagues: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives -- 5. 100 Percent Americanism: World War I–Era Repression and the Second Ku Klux Klan -- 6. The Industrialist as Producer: Henry Ford's Corporate Empire -- 7. Driving Out the Money Changers: Fascist Politics in the New Deal Era -- 8. From New Deal to Cold War: Political Scapegoating and Business Conflict from the 1930s to the 1950s -- 9. The Pillars of U.S. Populist Conspiracism: The John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby -- 10. From Old Right to New Right: Godless Communism, Civil Rights, and Secular Humanism -- 11. Culture Wars and Political Scapegoats: Gender, Sexuality, and Race -- 12. Dominion Theology and Christian Nationalism: Hard-Line Ideology versus Pragmatism -- 13. New Faces for White Nationalism: Reframing Supremacist Narratives -- 14. Battling the New World Order: Patriots and Armed Militias -- 15. The Vast Clinton Conspiracy Machine: The Hard Right on the Center Stage -- 16. The New Millennium: Demonization, Conspiracism, and Scapegoating in Transition -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix A: Sectors of the U.S. Right Active in the Year 2000 -- Appendix B: The Producerist Narrative Used in Right-Wing Populism -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors