The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1977

by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226484572
• ISBN13: 9780226484570
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 581 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From the Illuminati to McCarthy and Beyond

Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab's book is fairly comprehensive in its scope, with a solid research design and well documented with footnotes. My only criticism is that it does an inadequate job of defining its terms. For example, the term, "monism," is used extensively throughout the book, but Lipset and Raab devote less than a single cryptic paragraph to its definition. This deficiency is somewhat off-set by the authors' ability to draw fairly sophisticated observations and conclusions on the nature of right-wing extremism in the US over two centuries. Definitely for the scholar, not for the layman.