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Argues that America's separation of church and state is unrealistic, and maintains that each be held accountable to key values of progressive religious tradition.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Weatherman group gained notoriety for their violent, clandestine resistance to racism and imperialism in the United States. Drawing on documents and interviews, this book provides a history of the group.

Identifies, describes and categorizes the New Right and its leaders, and discusses its political tactics, goals and associated organizations.

An examination of government, politics, democracy & capitalism in the context of moral values.

Extremism takes many forms: racial, political, religious, economic.This collection of extremist idealogies and writings highlights the one thread that unites the various brands of extremism, namely, that there is always an enemy. The enemy can take the form of the government, communism, the patriarchy, African Americans, gays and lesbians, men, welfare recipients, Jews, or corporation, but the presence of a clear-cut idealogical foe is an intrinsic...

"How did American conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s? What political strategies originating during the decade enabled the modern conservative movement to flourish? And how did mainstream and extremist conservatives, frequently at odds over tactics and ideology, each play a role in reshaping the Republican Party? In the 1960s...

According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right, such as the Aryan Nations, the Order, the Posse Comitatus, and elements of the Ku Klux Klan, are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and the Racist Right, Barkun provides the first sustained exploration of the ideological and organizational development of the Christian Identity movement. Describing...

The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and re-election in 1984 reflect the revival of American right-wing activity begun in the 1970s. This book is a critical analysis of the various components of the contemporary American right, and is the first to provide an overview of recent research on the subject. Examining the meaning of such terms as "neo-conservative," "new right," and "religious right," Peele traces the growth of these movements and the links...

"The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited. In this brilliant new book, Eli Zaretsky rethinks the idea by examining three key moments in American history: the Civil War, the New Deal and the range of New Left movements in the 1960s and after including the civil rights movement, the women's movement and gay liberation. In each period,...

States that right-wing fascist movements emerged in the USA during periods of great social and political disorder, claiming to fight dangerous, alien, non-American adversaries. Mentions antisemitism throughout the book, from the late 19th century to the 1980s. Jews were at first stereotyped as dirty, bearded, lecherous, foreign degenerates, and later as pushy, money-grubbing materialists. Describes several ultra-nationalist antisemitic organizations...