Politicsl extremism -- Before the Civil War -- The Protestant crusades from the Civil War to World War I -- The bigoted twenties -- The 1930's: extremism of the depression -- The 1950's: McCarthyism -- The era of the John Birch Society -- The Birch Society and its contemporaries: social base-- George Wallace and the new nativism -- George Wallace: The election and the electorate -- Extremists and extremism -- Political extremism: past and future.
