Party of Fear From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

Name: Party of Fear From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History
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ISBN: 9780679767213

ISBN-10: 0679767215

ISBN-13: 9780679767213

Edition: 2nd 1995

Authors: David H. Bennett

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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…

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List price: $27.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/14/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: A Chosen People, a Threatened Paradise



A Colonial Heritage



Fear and Hatred in an Age of Equality



The Politics of Early Nativism



A Sweeping Tide of Immigration



The Image of the Intruders



Social Upheaval and the Search for America



The Emergence of the Know Nothings



The American Party in the North



The Search for a Nativist Solution in the West and South



The Return of the Nativist Fraternities



The Red Scare, 1919-1920



Traditional Nativism's Last Stand the Kuklux Klan in the I 9 2 0 S



To Inverted Nativism and Beyond, 1930-1945



The New Red Scare and After, 1946-1968



The Decline of Antialienism, the Rise of a New Right, 1968-1986


Notes


Index