The Party of Fear

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From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

David H. Bennett

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Vintage Books
14 November 1995

History of the Americas

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 1845 to the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, it casts a brilliant, cautionary light not only on our political fringes but on the ways in which ordinary Americans define themselves and demonize outsiders.

By: David H. Bennett
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Vintage Books ed Revised and Updated
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9780679767213
ISBN 10: 0679767215
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 14 November 1995
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David H. Bennett is professor emeritus of history at Syracuse University, specializing in American political extremism and military, and twentieth-century American history. Books he has written include Demagogues in the Depression- American Radicals and the Union Party, 1932-1936andThe Party of Fear- The American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement.

Reviews for The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History

Mr. Bennett ... has an eye for arresting detail and subtle contradiction ... a sober, thought-provoking and above all empathetic analysis. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> A superbly well-informed narrative history. <br>-- The Journal of American History