Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-504) and index.
Contents:
It's not new : historical perspective on American extremism prior to 1960 -- What is extremism? : style and tactics matter more than goals -- Extremists and the Constitution -- Motivations : why they join, stay, leave -- Communist Party USA -- Socialist Workers Party -- Spartacist League -- Workers League -- Guardian -- Black Panther Party -- Students for a Democratic Society -- Progressive Labor Party -- Workers World Party -- Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist) -- Revolutionary Action Movement -- Revolutionary Communist Party -- Communist Workers Party -- All African People's Revolutionary Party -- Marxist-Leninist Party, USA -- Reverend Billy James Hargis and his Christian Crusade -- The John Birch Society : a plot to sell books? -- The Dan Smoot Report -- "Life line" -- The Church League of America -- The Christian Right -- Willis Carto and Liberty Lobby -- The Citizens' Councils of America and The councilor -- Robert Bolivar DePugh and the Minutemen -- Common sense -- Gerald L.K. Smith and Christian Nationalist Crusade -- The LaRouche network -- Jewish Defense League -- The Nation of Islam -- Assorted neo-Nazis -- The National States Rights Party -- National Christian Publishers -- Ku Klux Klans.
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