Studying the US Political Right - General Bibliography
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Hard Right-Introductory
Hard Right-General
Overviews of Populism
Right-Wing Populism and Nativism
US Populist Party - 1800s
Patriot and Militia Movements
Hard Right
Hard Right-Introductory
Books & Reports
- Kenneth S. Stern, A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement
and the Politics of Hate, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
- Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History.
(New York: Basic Books, 1995).
- Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics," in The
Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1965).
- David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from
Nativism to the Militia Movement (Revised and Updated), (New York:
Vintage Books, 1995 (1988).
- Eric Ward, ed., The Second Revolution: States Rights', Sovereignty,
and Power of the County, (Seattle, Northwest Coalition Against
Malicious Harassment [Peanut Butter Publishing], 1997).
- Eric Ward, ed., Conspiracies: Real Grievances, Paranoia, and Mass
Movements, (Seattle, Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment
[Peanut Butter Publishing], 1996).
- Robert Crawford, S. L. Gardiner, Jonathan Mozzochi, and R. L. Taylor, The
Northwest Imperative: Documenting a Decade Of Hate, (Portland,
OR: Coalition for Human Dignity, and, Seattle, WA: Northwest Coalition
Against Malicious Harassment, 1994).
- Chip Berlet, Right Woos Left: Populist Party, LaRouchian, and Other
Neo- fascist Overtures to Progressives and Why They Must Be Rejected,
report, revised edition, (Cambridge, MA: Political Research Associates,
1994 (1991)).
Articles & Chapters
- Chip Berlet, "The Violence of Right-Wing Populism," Peace
Review, 7:3/4 (1995: Journals Oxford, Ltd.), 283-288.
Hard Right-General
Books & Reports
- David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from
Nativism to the Militia Movement (Revised and Updated), (New York:
Vintage Books, 1995 (1988).
- Robert A. Schoenberger, ed., The American Right Wing: Readings in
Political Behavior, (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969).
Articles & Chapters
- Charles Jeffrey Kraft, A Preliminary Socio-Economic & State
Demographic Profile of the John Birch Society, (Cambridge, MA:
Political Research Associates (PRA), 1992).
Overviews of Populism
Books & Reports
- Margaret Canovan, Populism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1981).
- Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History.
(New York: Basic Books, 1995).
Right-Wing Populism and Nativism
Books & Reports
- Catherine McNicol Stock, Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American
Grain, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996).
- Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics," in The
Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1965).
- Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing
Extremism in America, 1790-1970 (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers,
1970).
- Ray Allen Billington, The Origins of Nativism in the United States
1800-1844 (New York: Arno Press Inc., 1974).
- John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism
1860-1925 (New York: Atheneum, 1972).
- Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and
the Great Depression (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1982).
- Jonathan Mozzochi and L. Events Rhinegard, Rambo, Gnomes and the
New World Order: The Emerging Politics of Populism, (Portland,
OR: Coalition for Human Dignity, 1991)
- Chip Berlet, Right Woos Left: Populist Party, LaRouchian, and Other
Neo- fascist Overtures to Progressives and Why They Must Be Rejected.
(Revised). (Cambridge, MA: Political Research Associates, 1994).
Articles & Chapters
- Chip Berlet, "The Violence of Right-Wing Populism," Peace
Review, 7:3/4 (1995: Journals Oxford, Ltd.), 283-288.
- Tarso Luís Ramos, "Feint to the Left: The Growing Popularity
of Populism," Portland Alliance, (Oregon), Dec. 1991, pp.
13, 18.
- Mark Rupert, "Globalization and the Reconstruction of Common Sense
in the US," in S. Gill and J. Mittelman, eds., Innovation and
Transformation in International Studies, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1997).
US Populist Party - 1800s
Books & Reports
- Lawrence Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian
Revolt in America, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978).
Patriot and Militia Movements
Books & Reports
- Kenneth S. Stern, A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement
and the Politics of Hate, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
- Jess Walter, Every Knee Shall Bow: The Truth and Tragedy of Ruby
Ridge and the Randy Weaver Family, (New York: Regan Books, 1995).
- Morris Dees (with James Corcoran), Gathering Storm: America's Militia
Threat, (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).
- Thomas Halpern and Brian Levin, The Limitis of Dissent: The Constitutional
Status of Armed Civilian Militias, (Amherst, MA: Aletheia Press,
1996).
- Richard Abanes, American Militias: Rebellion, Racism & Religion,
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996).
- James Corcoran, Bitter Harvest: The Birth of Paramilitary Terrorism
in the Heartland, (New York: Viking Penguin, 1995 (1990)).
- Joel Dyer, Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City is Only the Beginning,
(New York: Westview, 1997).
- James A. Aho, The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism,
(Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1990).
- James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post
Viet Nam America, (New York: Hill & Wang, 1994).
- Mary Rupert, "The Patriot Movement and the Roots of Fascism," in
Susan Allen Nan, et. al. eds., Windows to Conflict Analysis and Resolution:
Framing our Field, (Fairfax, VA: Institute for Conflict Analysis
and Resolution, 1997).
- Kristen Rand, "Gun Shows in America: Tupperware® Parties for
Criminals," Violence Policy Center, 1996.
- Devin Burghart and Robert Crawford, Guns and Gavels: Common Law
Courts, Militias & White Supremacy, (Portland, OR: Coalition
for Human Dignity, 1996).
- Robert Crawford, S. L. Gardiner, Jonathan Mozzochi, and R. L. Taylor, The
Northwest Imperative: Documenting a Decade Of Hate, (Portland,
OR: Coalition for Human Dignity, and, Seattle, WA: Northwest Coalition
Against Malicious Harassment, 1994).
Articles & Chapters
- Daniel Junas, "Rise of the Citizen Militias: Angry White Guys
with Guns," CovertAction Quarterly, spring 1995.
- Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons; "Militia Nation," The
Progressive, June 1995, pp. 22-25.
- Janet Biehl,"Militia Fever: The Fallacy of "Neither Left
nor Right," Green Perspectives, A Social Ecology Publication,
Number 37, April 1996.
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