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1 Margaret
Canovan, Populism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981);
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History. (New
York: Basic Books, 1995).
2 Lawrence
Goodwyn, The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt
in America, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. vii.
3 Canovan, Populism,
pp. 51, 294. Centrist/extremist theory was popularized by a series of
books, including The New American Right, first published in 1955,
later revised and expanded as: Daniel Bell, ed., The Radical Right:
The New American Right-Expanded and Updated, (Garden City, NY: Anchor
Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964); and Seymour Martin Lipset
and Earl Raab, The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America,
1790-1970, (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970), with a
second edition appearing in 1978.
4 Canovan, Populism,
p. 51.
5 Ibid.,
pp. 13, 128-138
6 Ibid.,
p. 289.
7 Ibid.,
p. 293.
8 Ibid.,
p. 294.
9 Kazin, The
Populist Persuasion, pp. 10-11.
10 Canovan, Populism,
pp. 293-295.
11 Matthew
N. Lyons, working draft of chapter segment in Berlet & Lyons, Too
Close for Comfort
12 Kazin, The
Populist Persuasion, p. 284.
13 This
list is a compilation of points made previously by Canovan and Kazin,
as well as John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American
Nativism 1860-1925 (New York: Atheneum, 1972); Richard Hofstadter, "The
Paranoid Style in American Politics," in The Paranoid Style in
American Politics and Other Essays (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965);
and David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: The American Far Right from
Nativism to the Militia Movement, (New York: Vintage Books, revised
1995, (1988)).
14 Gordon
W. Allport, Nature of Prejudice, Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley,
1954, pp. 410-424.
15 Matthew
N. Lyons, working draft of chapter segment in Berlet & Lyons, Too
Close for Comfort.
16 Canovan, Populism,
p. 292.
17 Ibid.,
pp. 292-293.
18 Hans-Georg
Betz, Radical Right-wing Populism in Western Europe, New York:
St. Martins Press, 1994, pp. 106-108, 174; "America's New Populism," Business
Week, cover story, March 13, 1995.
19 Matthew
N. Lyons, working draft of chapter segment in Berlet & Lyons, Too
Close for Comfort.
20 Lucy
A. Williams, "The Right's Attack on Aid to Families with Dependent
Children," The Public Eye, Vol. X, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter
1996, p. 18.
21 Jean
V. Hardisty, "The Resurgent Right: Why Now?" The Public
Eye, Fall/Winter 1995, pp. 1-13.
22 Betty
Dobratz, and Stephanie Shanks-Meile, "The Contemporary Ku Klux Klan
and the American Nazi Party: A Comparison to American Populism at the
Turn of the Century," Humanity and Society (1988), pp. 20-50.;
Victor C. Ferkiss, "Populist Influences on American Fascism," Western
Political Quarterly (1957), pp. 350-373.
23 Peter
Fritzsche, Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization
in Weimar Germany.(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp.
149-150.
24 Ibid.,
pp. 230-236.
25 Ibid., pp.
233-235
26 Ibid.,
p. 234.
27 Umberto
Eco, "Ur-Fascism" [Eternal Fascism], New York Review of
Books, June 22, 1995.
28 Fritzsche, Rehearsals, p.
233.
29 Ibid.,
p. 235.
30 Matthew
N. Lyons, working paper for Too Close for Comfort.
31 Kevin
Phillips, "The Politics of Frustration," The New York Times
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