New Hate A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right

Name: New Hate A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
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ISBN: 9780307379696

ISBN-10: 0307379698

ISBN-13: 9780307379696

Edition: 2012

Authors: Arthur Goldwag

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From the author of -Isms and -Ologies, and Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, here is a deeply researched, fascinating history of the role that organized hatred has played in American politics, from Colonial times to our own.From the 9/11 "Truthers" who think our government allowed the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks to happen, to the "Birthers" who claim Barack Obama was not born in the United States, extremism in this country is increasingly becoming a part of the norm. Arthur Goldwag delineates the origins of these "new" theories, the economic and social factors that have contributed to their popularity, and how today's fringe groups relate to similar movements that preceded them.…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Arthur Goldwag first studied at Kenyon College and then at Brown University. He went on to work in book publishing for more than 20 years: at Random House, the New York Review of Books, and the Book-of-the-Month Club, amongst others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Introduction: Birthers, Birchers, and Death Panels


The Paranoid Style of Hatred


What Is "Conspiracy Theory"?


Henry Ford and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion


The Apron, the Trowel, and the Knife in the Back- Freemasonry and the Great Conspiracy


The Whore of Babylon and Stealth Jihad


The New Deal, the Old Right, and the Pseudo-conservative Revolts


White Supremacy and Black Separatism-Exceptional Hatreds, Separate but Equal


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index