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A Kirkus Reviews Best Publication of 2012 From the author of -Isms and -Ologies and Cults, Conspiracies, and Key Societies, here is a deeply researched, fascinating background of the role that arranged hatred has played out in American politics. The New Hate needs listeners over a surprising, often stunning, sometimes bizarrely amusing travel through the swamps of nativism, racism, and paranoia that contain long thrived on the American fringe. Arthur Goldwag shows us the parallels between your hysteria about the Illuminati that wracked the new American Republic in the 1790s and the McCarthyism that roiled the 1950s, and he discusses the similarities between your anti-New Deal causes of the 1930s and the Tea Get together activity today. He traces Henry Ford's anti-Semitism and the John Birch Society's "Insiders" back again to the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and he relates white supremacist nightmares about racial pollution to nineteenth-century anxieties of papal plots. Written with verve and wit, this lively history is essential listening for anybody who would like to understand the recent re-ascendance of extremism in American politics.
