| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Hell's victories -- 2. Family roots -- 3. Hollywood Bolsheviks -- 4. The enemy within -- 5. Black Monday -- 6. Philosopher, statesman, and chief -- 7. The Little Rock crisis -- 8. Vicious and desperate men -- 9. Legislating redemption : the Posse Comitatus Act becomes law -- 10. From Jew to Reverend Gale -- 11. Birchers and minutemen -- 12. Flags, tents, skillets, and soldiers -- 13. Anglo-Saxons triumphant -- 14. The ministry of Christ Church -- 15. The conjurer's circle -- 16. Volunteer Christian posses -- 17. The Posse Blue Book -- 18. The Posse rides Wisconsin -- 19. The Posse and the FBI -- 20. The spirit of vigilantism -- 21. Badges and stars -- 22. The Hoskins estate -- 23. Spud shed -- 24. Farm strike! -- 25. Tractorcade -- 26. No substitute for knowledge -- 27. Tax protester -- 28. Civil disorder -- 29. AAM split -- 30. Kahl and his courier -- 31. Snake oil for sale -- 32. Jim Wickstrom's main man -- 33. A domestic dispute -- 34. Neoconservatives and the Grand Wazir -- 35. Soft-pedaling hate -- 36. The deadfall line -- 37. Farmers abandoned -- 38. An enemy government -- 39. Militia madness -- 40. The road from Oklahoma City -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
From the emergence of white supremacist groups following the Civil War, through the segregationist violence of the civil rights era, the right-wing tax protest movement of the 1970s, the farm crisis of the 1980s and the militia movement of the 1990s, the book details the roots of the radical right. It also tells the story of men like William Potter Gale, a retired Army officer and the founder of the Posse Comitatus whose hate-filled sermons and calls to armed insurrection have fueled generations of tax protesters, militiamen and other anti-government zealots since the 1960s. |
| Subject |
Militia movements -- United States.
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Radicalism -- United States.
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Right-wing extremists -- United States.
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Posse Comitatus (Group)
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John Birch Society.
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Antisemitism -- United States.
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Neo-Nazism -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0312291051 |
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