Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

by Matthew Dallek

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society's extremism remade American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541673565
• ISBN13: 9781541673564
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"