The new hate
Subtitle: a history of fear and loathing on the populist right
By: Arthur Goldwag
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780307379696
Subjects: Politics and culture; Right-wing extremists; Hate groups; Conspiracy theories
Description: A history of the role of organized hate in American politics delineates the origins of extreme belief systems as well as the economic and social factors that have contributed to their popularity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: birthers, birchers, and death panels; title: The paranoid style of hatred; title: What is "conspiracy theory?"; title: Henry Ford and the protocols of the Elders of Zion; title: The apron, the trowel, and the knife in the back; title: Freemasonry and the great conspiracy; title: The whore of Babylon and stealth Jihad; title: The New Deal, the Old Right and the pseudo-conservative revolts; title: White supremacy and black separatism; title: exceptional hatreds, separate but equal.