Author:
Zeskind, Leonard.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
Descriptionxxiv, 645 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Prequel, 1955-1974 : The apprenticeship of Willis Carto -- William Pierce, national socialism, and the National Youth Alliance -- Part one: Emergence, growth, and consolidation, 1974-1986 : The Turner Diaries and resurgence -- David Duke and a new Klan emerge -- The election of 1980: The Klan and Ronald Reagan -- Denying the Holocaust -- Survivalism meets a subcultural "Christian identity" -- Nation and race: Aryan nations, Nehemiah township, and Gordon Kahl -- Christian patriots after Gordon Kahl -- Birth of the first underground -- Enclave nationalism and the order -- Origin of the Populist Party and the break with Reaganism -- Europeans and Southerners at the Institute for Historical Review -- Part two: Mainstreamers and ballots take the lead, 1987-1989 : White riot in Forsyth County on King Day -- David Duke, the Democratic Party candidate -- Crackdown and indictment at Fort Smith -- Before the trial begins -- Seditious conspiracy goes to trial -- Pete Peters's family-style Bible camp for identity believers -- Elections 1988: David Duke and Pat Robertson out on the Hustings -- Populist Party meets in Chicago after David Duke wins a legislator's seat -- Skinhead International in Tennessee -- Part three: The end of anticommunism, 1990-1991 : German unification and the reemergence of nationalism -- The first Persian Gulf War and the realignment of the far right -- The collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of white supremacy -- Transatlantic traffic -- Part four: The movement matures, 1992-1993 : The Duke campaign(s) and the Louisiana electorate -- Pat Buchanan runs through the Republican presidential primaries -- The Populist Party goes with Bo Gritz -- The FBI aims for Randy Weaver on Ruby Ridge -- After the shoot-out, the militia -- Clinton's first year and the culture war -- Inferno at Waco and Randy Weaver wins at trial -- A suicide in North Carolina and the birth of resistance records -- Willis
Note:Carto loses control of the Institute for Historical Review -- Part five: Against the new world order, 1994-1996 : The common law courts, partners to the militia -- Birth of American Renaissance -- Holocaust denial: to the Moscow station -- Elections 1994: An anti-immigrant voting bloc emerges -- The bell curve: Legitimizing scientific racism -- The Oklahoma City bomb and its immediate aftermath -- The second underground collapses -- (Re)birth of the Council of Conservative Citizens -- The Washington Times fires Sam Francis -- Elections 1996: Pat Buchanan roils the Republicans -- Part six: Mainstreamers and vanguardists at century's end, 1997-2001 : Carto dispossessed -- Resistance Records: Buying and selling in the cyberworld -- After the Oklahoma City bomber(s) are tried, the violence continues -- The United States Congress and the Council of Conservative Citizens -- National Alliance remakes Resistance Records -- Liberty Lobby in bankruptcy court -- The millennium changes -- Elections 2000: The neo-confederate resurgence -- Pat Buchanan and the Reform Party -- The Liberty Lobby fortress crumbles -- Part seven: Prolegomena to the future, 2001-2004 : After September 11, 2001 -- The anti-immigrant movement blossoms -- Willis Carto and William Pierce leave the main stage -- The penultimate moment -- The future.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-621) and index.
