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An investigative reporter studies the belief that there are plots to undermine the economy, before deliberately waging atomic warfare

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Farrar Straus & Giroux
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January 1, 1988
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6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
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0809001748
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"An excellent piece of work, both a good read and a chilling warning." -- Wayne King, The New York Times

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar Straus & Giroux; 3rd edition (January 1, 1988)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 294 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0809001748
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0809001743
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 8.75 inches

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2017

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This is a good and even handed overview from a sociology standpoint of the whole "alt right" /neonazi/white supremacist
movements. it's a bit dated but that underscores all the more the fact that these groups still operate about the same, albiet
with more manipulation of their true agenda and of the press. best to learn about this by reading and comparing several
books than from sound bytes in todays media.

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Bill H.

Good read, but...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2020

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The material is very dated. It was good as a historical read only.

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Steven H Propp

A PENETRATING SURVEY AND STUDY OF SUCH “FAR RIGHT” GROUPS

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2019

Author James Coates wrote in the 1995 Preface to the New Edition of this 1987 book, “[This book] tells about another America, one populated by Mahons, David Koreshes, and men and women like Timothy McVeigh, the shadowy loner who allegedly avenged Koresh with a bomb attack in Oklahoma City, and who… apparently found his political inspiration in the ultra-right militia movement. This book shows you who they are, where they are, and why they say they hate their government with a ‘perfect hatred.’” (Pg. viii)

In the original Introduction, he notes, “Neither the scope nor the virulent aspects of the Survival movement had been grasped until investigators tied it to the sensational [radio talk show host David] Berg murder. Once the link was made… the investigators discovered that the Survival Right was rampant… Tying the Survival Right to the Berg assassination and to scores of other dramatic crimes throughout the United States underscored that the single most significant characteristic of the Survivalists is their willingness to act, indeed to lay down their lives for their bigotry. Above all, it is this activism that separates the Survivalists from other hate groups in America from pre-Revolutionary days to the present.” (Pg. 10-11) He adds, “it behooves all to learn who and where these dangerous people are, what they are saying and, above all, how they came to be this way.” (Pg. 16)

After the FBI brought down the Order, “the FBI ultimately had to admit that it could account for less than $600,000 of the enormous Ukiah [robbery]. The rest, prosecutors speculated in the courtroom, could have been donated to any of hundreds of Identity Christian churches, small Klan and Nazi splinter groups, Posse chapters or whatever.” (Pg. 73)

He explains, “Identity, writes [Identity author Kenneth] Goff, looks back two thousand years before the birth of Christ to a Chaldean moon worshipper named Abram… Stripped of its anti-Semitic asides, much of the Identity account of early Israelite tribal history conforms with mainstream Jewish and Christian Bible scholarship.” (Pg. 82-83)

He states that the “Posse [Comitatus] typically exists as cells made up of seven white males along with their families in a given area who operate independently of any national leadership. But this loosely affiliated conglomeration of Survivalists appears to be the largest single element of the Survival Right now operating on the American scene. In the mid-1970s the Internal Revenue Service assigned a number of its best agents to a newly formed Illegal Tax Protester Program to seek out Posse members and bring charges against them… Despite vigorous prosecution by the new unit, the number of protesters had only declined to 52,000 by 1986… To cope with the flood of protests, the URS bureaucracy assigned two hundred auditors full-time to deal with Posse cases.” (Pg. 111)

He notes that “Political experts trying to make sense out of the [Lyndon] LaRouche phenomenon in the 1986 elections were quick to note that these particular extremists are hard to classify because they exhibit and annoying propensity for changing direction. (LaRouche himself went from ultraleft to ultraright over a single summer. It should be noted as well, however, the LaRouche, while he was on the extreme left, never enjoyed the sort of successes that he did after the swing to the far right.” (Pg. 206)

He recounts the “conspiracy” theories of Willis Carto’s Liberty Lobby: “The modern world’s leadership elite belong to two … groups that arouse the suspicion of proponents of the Hidden Hand. These are the Council on Foreign Relations… and the Rockefeller-supported Trilateral Commission, a group designed to include Asians in the bilateral Bilderberger formula, which had included only Americans and Europeans. In short, the Bilderbergers evolved into the Trilateralists and the Council on Foreign Relations… Naturally, conspiracy seekers find a gold mine in this organization just as they did in the Bilderbergers.” (Pg. 248)

He concludes, “Certainly, as of this writing the nightmares that drive the denizens of this book continue. Global nuclear arsenals grow daily even as tremendous international strife compounds the sense of gloom. Economic conditions remain desperate in the farm belt, and urban defenders of hard-won civil liberties find themselves losing ground in the face of the AIDS panic. Frightened and increasingly mean-spirited people perpetuate the blight of racism everywhere… the televangelists’ influence already is growing rapidly. These forces all combine to sicken the spirit of people in the mainstream just as they infect the Survivalists whose energies are so intently focused on overcoming the chaos they believe is imminent. The ultimate question may not be who has the Survival Sickness, but rather, who is going to survive it.” (Pg. 268-269)

This book will be of keen interest to those studying such groups.

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Connects the Wackos of the 1980s (and before) and the current wackos

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2019

I found the book an easy read, with no real surprises. It mentions that Ronald Reagan, whom I've always despised, as being a shill for some of our worst corporations in the 1950s. No surprise there.

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