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The party of fear : from nativist movements to the New Right in American history

Title
The party of fear : from nativist movements to the New Right in American history / David H. Bennett.
Author
Bennett, David Harry, 1935-
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1988.

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Description
x, 509 pages; 24 cm
Summary
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 in their political, social, and economic settings, and discusses personalities such as Henry Ford and Charles Coughlin, racist propaganda, antisemitic publications, and immigration restrictions. During the 1960s-70s neo-Nazi groups arose and have endured into the 1980s, influenced by the farm crisis.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • includes bibliographical notes and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Prologue: a chosen people, a threatened paradise -- pt. I. Nativism in early American history -- A colonial heritage -- Fear and hatred in an age of equality -- The politics of early nativism -- A sweeping tide of immigration -- The image of the intruders -- Social upheaval and the search for America -- The emergence of the know nothings -- The American party in the North -- The search for a nativist solution in the West and South -- pt. II. Antialien movements in recent American history -- The return of the nativist fraternities -- The Red Scare, 1919-1920 -- Traditional nativism's last stand: the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s -- To inverted nativism and beyond, 1930-1945 -- The New Red Scare and after, 1946-1968 -- The decline of antialienism, the rise of a new right, 1968-1986 -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0807817724
  • 9780807817728
LCCN
87019112
OCLC
  • ocm16406877
  • 16406877
  • SCSB-1193217
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library