new source i wasn't sure where to list this a dissertation by samuel brenner at brown university in is largely focused on the jbs abstract this dissertation seeks to accomplish four goals first to trace the development and history of ultra conservative anti communist conspiracists who referred to themselves as americanists from the emergence of americanist speakers near the beginning of the s through the creation of americanist grassroots organizations such as the john birch society near the end of the s and the political heyday of americanism in the early to mid s until the eventual marginalization and slow decline of americanism as a political and social force in the mid to late s second to focus attention not only on the messages and goals of americanist leaders but also on the ideas views and concerns of ordinary americanists as reflected through letters americanists wrote to each other to national magazines and conservative periodicals to robert welch and the john birch society to dr fred schwarz and the christian anti communism crusade cacc and even to j edgar hoover and the fbi third to address some of the stereotypical views of the birch society and its allies primarily that americanists were vicious racists and anti semites akin to george lincoln rockwell and the american nazi party and to explore what were in fact ambiguous and nuanced attitudes toward african americans jews anti semitism racism zionism and the civil rights movement fourth to demonstrate that many of the members of the birch society attendees at the cacc s schools of anti communism and listeners to clarence manion and dan smoot shared a coherent political ideology which they called americanism and saw it as their task to inform americans about the benefits of free market economics religion states rights and personal autonomy and the grave dangers of communism liberalism collectivism atheism and one worldism this dissertation is divided into three parts part i traces the history of americanism and americanists between the early s and the early s part ii focuses on the critical period between and and uses letters and messages to determine what typical americanists were thinking saying and doing during a time of great political and social change part iii examines the complicated americanist views of racism anti semitism african americans and jews a link to it should be added into one of the sections on sources whichever section is best the author isn't really writing as pro jbs or anti jbs so i'm not sure where to list it