American Zealots

Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

De: Arie Perliger

Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon

In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies. The need to understand the nature and danger of far-right violence is greater than ever.

In American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of right-wing domestic terrorism. He analyzes its historical roots, characteristics, tactics, rhetoric, and organization, assessing the current and future trajectory of the use of violence by the far right. Perliger draws on a comprehensive dataset of more than 5,000 attacks and their perpetrators between 1990 and 2018 in order to explore key trends in American right-wing terrorism. He describes the entire ideological spectrum of the American far right, including today's white supremacists, antigovernment groups, and antiabortion fundamentalists, as well as the histories of the KKK, skinheads, and neo-Nazis. Based on these findings, Perliger suggests counterterrorism policies that can respond effectively to the far-right threat.

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Examination of extremism

Academic examination of militant ideologies and effects on US political reality. Uses relevant examples of right wing terrorism

why didn't they include a PDF with all the tables?

it was an interesting and fairly short work. A lot of historical information on various right-wing extremist groups. The text the text constantly referred to tables. they could have been included in an acompanying PDF but... makes the audiobook pretty much useless.