Beyond Left and Right
Subtitle: INSURGENCY AND THE ESTABLISHMENT
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780252065682
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; United States - General; History / United States / 20th Century; History - General History; 20th century; Foreign relations; Politics and government; United States; History: American
First sentence: The task of progressive reform, Senator Robert M. La Follette proclaimed in 1916, was to combat "the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.
Description: Beyond Left and Right is a sweeping overview of political insurgency in the United States from the 1880s to the present. It is at once a stunning synthesis, drawing on a large number of scholarly works, and an ambitious and original piece of research.

The book ranges over diverse individuals and groups that have attacked the established order, from the left and the right, from the Populists of the 1890s to Ross Perot and the religious right of our times, dealing along the way with noninterventionists, the Klan, monetary radicals, McCarthyites, Birchers, and Reaganites, among many others.