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Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort 1st Edition

by Chip Berlet (Author), Matthew N. Lyons (Author)
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Right-wing militias and other antigovernment organizations have received heightened public attention since the Oklahoma City bombing. While such groups are often portrayed as marginal extremists, the values they espouse have influenced mainstream politics and culture far more than most Americans realize. This important volume offers an in-depth look at the historical roots and current landscape of right-wing populism in the United States. Illuminated is the potent combination of anti-elitist rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and ethnic scapegoating that has fueled many political movements from the colonial period to the present day. The book examines the Jacksonians, the Ku Klux Klan, and a host of Cold War nationalist cliques, and relates them to the evolution of contemporary electoral campaigns of Patrick Buchanan, the militancy of the Posse Comitatus and the Christian Identity movement, and an array of millennial sects. Combining vivid description and incisive analysis, Berlet and Lyons show how large numbers of disaffected Americans have embraced right-wing populism in a misguided attempt to challenge power relationships in U.S. society. Highlighted are the dangers these groups pose for the future of our political system and the hope of progressive social change.

Winner--Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
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    1572305622
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    978-1572305625
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    1st
  4. Publisher
    The Guilford Press
  5. Publication date
    November 1, 2000
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    499 pages
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L. Fewkes
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2017
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This book broadened my understanding of right wing populism. Formerly, I believed that right wing populism was a belief held by people who were short sighted and very conservative. While ignorance, bigotry and racism are all part of it, I believe that its roots are buried deep in the power struggle between people who have wealth and power, and rank and file people whose biggest weapon is the coalitions they are able to build in order to speak with one voice. People with wealth and power are able to use ignorance, bigotry, racism and the like to prevent those coalitions from forming and are thereby able to maintain their power base. In addition they are able to use the very same people who benefit from those coalitions to destroy them.
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Whitey Oldman
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Analysis, if a little overwrought
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2006
Anti-intellectualism has always driven the right-wing of American politics. Coupled with "Nativism", racism, and a whole host of chauvinistic "-isms", the right-wing has always been a dangerously regressive movement that threatens to undo the work of the founders and destroy the Constitution.

Read this book - and know America's internal enemies.
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C. Grant
5.0 out of 5 stars Just as interesting as the NPR interview suggested it would be
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018
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I bought this after hearing an intriguing interview with the author. I don't often read nonfiction or commentary. But this book is engrossing. You should download the sample and read just the Introduction to get an idea. It increases the complexity of the right-wing populism topic, but it also simplifies it, i.e. defines different types, different motivations. It does this both historically and in a modern-day context. I am a much, much better observer of the current scene because of it, and I have a better understanding of what's going on these days at the level of ordinary people.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Really?
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2021
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I was hoping for something objective about the topic but this is anything but. If you like watching Chuck Todd on MSNBC you'll love this. There's nothing objective about this at all.
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Peter-S
3.0 out of 5 stars Exhaustive and Exhausting
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2001
The schematic that Berlet and Lyons propose to categorize various right wing populist movements throughout American history in the beginning of this exhaustive and exhausting survey is a fairly reasonable analytical tool. The problem is that it tends to constrain the historical analysis because each group, introduced in sequence, must be fitted into it's proper place within the scheme. It wears thin pretty fast.
They've done their research, they cite the right authors, they dig deeply into the past, but soon it's all merely additive, not insightful. It works like this: first a description of this movement, then this one, both of which shared some traits, then this one which developed a new means of expressing their xenophobia, etc. What it all adds up to is that any insights about these groups, or their proliferation, tend to be located within a fairly narrow range of observation.
Still it's a good reference work, and, if you're interested in the learning some of the tactics used by these groups to destroy the last vestiges of the neoliberal orthodoxy, to draw boundaries around groups who are not white, not male, not Christian, not true Americans, this book is a good place to start.
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James Price
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful and Comprehensive!
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2011
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The authors of this work did their homework on the tumultuous political strife of the 1930s and beyond very well.
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Vampire Truth
5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary Reading in Today's America
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2004
A balanced historical account of a skein of American political thought that the authors argue persuasively is far more mainstream than most observers would want to believe.

It's interesting to read down some of the other contributions in the "Reader Reviews" and see how defensive some of the responses are. The reason this type of reaction is surprising is that there is nothing accusatory or inflammatory in this book's rhetoric and it is exhaustively and accurately researched. Demagogues of the left like the "populist" Andrew Jackson (here debunked as a genocidal Indian fighter and tool of private banking interests) and Louisiana's Depression era Kingfish Huey Long share page space with more recent anti-government bogies of the modern American right like David Duke and Pat Buchanan, and the co-opting of themes sounded by Right Wing populists like (Democrat) George Wallace by modern Republican presidents like Richard Nixon is honestly depicted.

What this book does not do is paint all people on the Republican side of the ledger as extremists. But when its chronology reaches contemporary times, it does recognize that the Republican Party has become a haven for or at least a tolerant silent partner in many of the ideas -- hatred of government, immigrant-bashing, the elevation of business interests at the expense of individual liberties, apocalyptic Christianity that seeks to impose a religious ideal on secular American society -- that have fueled anti-democratic Right Wing populist movements since the 1830s. Not to recognize this would be less than honest, since the whole point of this book is to demonstrate the continuity of Right-Wing Populism as an organizing principle of American political discourse.

A sober, exhaustive and excellent piece of work for readers on BOTH SIDES of the political fence. If left-wingers can read "The Closing of the American Mind" as a challenge to their assumptions, those of the right should consider doing the same with this fine piece of work.
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Matthew Desmond
4.0 out of 5 stars Obviously necessary.
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2003
This is a sober, well-reasoned book that deserves a good look. One need only to glance at all the one-star reviews below to see how necessary it is. Scary folks.
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