Enemies of the State (eBook)

The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump

D. J. Mulloy (Autor)

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2018
242 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7652-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump's candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American Bund to the modern militia movement, D. J. Mulloy provides a guide for anyone interested in examining the roots of the radical right in the U.S.in all its many varied formsgoing back to the days of the Great Depression, the New Deal and the extraordinary political achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Enemies of the State offers an informative and highly readable introduction to some of the key developments and events of recent American history including: the fear of the Communist subversion of American society in the aftermath of the Second World War; the rise of the civil rights movement and the ';white backlash' this elicited; the apparent decline of liberalism and the ascendancy of conservatism during the economic malaise of the 1970s; Ronald Reagan's triumphant presidential victory in 1980; and the Great Recession of 2007-08 and subsequent election of President Obama.

Autor

D.J. Mulloy is Chair and Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he specializes in the study of post-1945 U.S. history. He is the author of American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement (2004), and The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism and the Cold War (2014).

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Big Government on the March: FDR and the Roots of the Radical RightChapter 2: Wrestling the Octopus: Anti-Communism and the Radical RightChapter 3: Resisting the Tide: Civil Rights and the Radical RightChapter 4: Out of the Wilderness: Ronald Reagan and the New RightChapter 5: Radicalism Rising: Conspiracies and Anti-Statism at Century’s EndChapter 6: Tea Parties and Trumpism: The Radical Right in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusionA Note on SourcesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2018
• Reihe/Serie: American Ways
• Zusatzinfo: 14 Illustrations including: - 14 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: anti-communists • anti-statism • Big Government • Civil Rights • Cold War • communism • Donald Trump • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • George Wallace • Great Depression • militia groups • Phyllis Schlafly • Ronald Reagan • Tea Party • The New Deal • Trumpism • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7652-5 / 1442276525
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7652-9 / 9781442276529