Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash [Paperback]

Chip Berlet (Editor)

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This collection provides essays which challenge the right wing backlash, considering how the political right is determined to roll back social gains and threaten democratic processes. This anthology examines the movements and forces which motivate the hard right, examining the facts for those seeking to oppose the right wing: an entire section of suggested strategies provides a most important series of ideas. -- Midwest Book Review

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• Paperback: 397 pages
• Publisher: South End Press (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896085236
• ISBN-13: 978-0896085237
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,067,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Chip Berlet, an investigative journalist and independent scholar, coauthored the book Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford 2000). From 1981-2011 he was senior analyst at Political Research Associates. Berlet's byline has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Des Moines Register, Columbia Journalism Review, Amnesty Now, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Progressive, Tikkun, Greenpeace Magazine, and In These Times.

Other works have appeared in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Contemporary Sociology, American Anthropologist, and Research in Political Sociology. His article about right-wing conspiracy theories, "Fears of Fédéralisme in the United States," appeared in Fédéralisme Régionalisme; and he co-authored the Encyclopaedia Judaica's entry on "Neo-Nazism."

In 2012 the University of California press will publish his chapter on the US Tea Party movement. Other chapters include "The United States: Messianism, Apocalypticism, and Political Religion" in The Sacred in Twentieth Century Politics: Essays in Honour of Professor Stanley G. Payne (Palgrave Macmillan 2007); and "The New Political Right in the United States: Reaction, Rollback, and Resentment," in Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America, (NYU Press 2008).

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6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scary as Proverbial Hell, June 15, 2004

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In an age where most people automatically believe the snippets and pieces they are handed by corporate media (which in the US is the Right) as the whole and absolute truth, this book is a must read and should be on the reading list of every American. The in-depth discussions of the various far right units/groups are invaluable. What you don't know CAN hurt you and WILL if given half a chance. If knowing is half the battle, then this book is your ammo.

8 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scholars, Students, Activists... Prepare to be challenged!, March 8, 2001

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Eyes Right is an authoratative anthology of important research and writing about the growth of the right-wing in the United States. This work is epecially useful since it is well organized and well indexed. Contributors include such established progressive scholars as Russ Bellant, Frederick Clarkson, and Sara Diamond, who while not exactly household names, are well regarded among the politically literate. Each them have also published important books that ought to be on the reading list of anyone who starts out with this useful collection.

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Par Excellence, October 11, 2001

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Ina Irro (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (Paperback)

This well indexed book is a window to understand the relevance of the Right Wing Groups, The Right Wing "Extremist" Ideology, The Threat of the Right Wing on America; be it the threat on the Pillars of Liberty, Freedom or perhaps the apparent threat of the right wing on the constitution.

But most importantly (dangers of) disguising of the old Right as New Right. The most likable thing in this book is that it is based on well researched works and intellectually it is very consummable material ! . Althought this book does not contain any Rhetoric whatsoever, yet It will occur to the reader that the Right Wing Extremism is undiminishing threat (just like Virus strain that changes with environments) = As the old right wants to be perceived as New Right.

The Book is (to me) a reference of the Dangers of the Right Wing's Dogmatic, Anti-Democratic Ideology -- It doesn't take long to realize and accept that The Right Wing Extremist are The Domestic Enemy #1 that USA may have.

Some the chapters go to such details to quite eloborate that the core and the base of many right wing groups in USA is very much in contradiction to the traditions, principles of liberty and freedom that are the very basis of succes of this GREAT Nation.

Read it and read into the lines --- !