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Birchers
- How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
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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 conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend American life. Conservative leaders recognized that these affluent voters were needed to win elections, and for decades the GOP courted Birchers and their extremist successors. The far right steadily gained power, finally toppling the Republican establishment and electing Donald Trump.
Birchers is a deeply researched and indispensable new account of the rise of extremism in the United States.
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Off the Edge
- Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
- De: Kelly Weill
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. More and more people believe that we all live on a pancake-shaped planet, capped by a solid dome and ringed by an impossible wall of ice. How? Why? In Off the Edge, journalist Kelly Weill draws a direct line from today’s conspiratorial moment, brimming not just with Flat Earthers but also anti-vaxxers and QAnon followers, back to the early days of Flat Earth theory in the 1830s.
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Unconvincing
- De Bruce Cline en 05-24-22
De: Kelly Weill
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The Storm Is upon Us
- How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
- De: Mike Rothschild
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it’s going next? Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, has been collecting their stories for years, and through interviews with QAnon converts, apostates, and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics, he is uniquely equipped to explain the movement and its followers.
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Great book, lousy narrator
- De Denise Lavely en 06-22-21
De: Mike Rothschild
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The MAGA Diaries
- My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)
- De: Tina Nguyen
- Narrado por: Tina Nguyen
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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In The MAGA Diaries, she tells not only her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement but the history of the right wing, painting a shocking picture of how they recruit, train, and indoctrinate generations of young people and shape them into the influential leaders and the supporting cast of tomorrow’s Republican party. They are ruthless in building robust networks of power, even if it means demolishing entire civic institutions, from women’s rights to fair elections—and staging a coup when it doesn’t work out.
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An Engaging Story from A Brave Young Journalist
- De SM en 01-25-24
De: Tina Nguyen
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Far-Right Vanguard
- The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- De: John S. Huntington
- Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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In Far-Right Vanguard, John Huntington shows how, for almost a century, the far right has forced so-called "respectable" conservatives to grapple with their concerns, thereby intensifying right-wing thought and forecasting the trajectory of American politics. Ultraconservatives of the 20th century were the vanguard of modern conservatism as it exists in the Republican Party of today.
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Brilliant, focused history that resonates.
- De "teebalicious" en 07-25-23
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We Are Proud Boys
- How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism
- De: Andy B. Campbell
- Narrado por: Stacy Carolan
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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After the 2016 election, Americans witnessed a frightening trend: the rise of a host of new extremist groups across the country. Emboldened by a new president, they flooded political rallies and built fervent online presences, expanding rapidly until they were a regular sight at everyday demonstrations. Amid the chaos, one group emerged as a leader among the others, with matching outfits, bizarre rituals, and a reputation for violence: the Proud Boys. We Are Proud Boys is the definitive narrative exploration of this notorious street gang and all the far-right movements they’re connected to.
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Depressing, But Important
- De TM en 10-17-22
De: Andy B. Campbell
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Homegrown
- Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
- De: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Toobin
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people was his patriotic duty. New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin traces the dramatic history and profound legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who once declared, “I believe there is an army out there, ready to rise up, even though I never found it.” But that doesn’t mean his army wasn’t there. With news-breaking reportage, Toobin details how McVeigh’s principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001.
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Not a great book I’m sorry to say
- De H. Winslow en 05-10-23
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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Stayin' Alive
- The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
- De: Jefferson R. Cowie
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book, Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.
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Couldn’t get past “rank and file”
- De A. Arena en 10-13-21
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Freedom's Dominion
- A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- De: Jefferson Cowie
- Narrado por: André Chapoy
- Duración: 16 h y 5 m
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American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace.
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Very easily read and I learned a lot
- De Kev All en 02-05-23
De: Jefferson Cowie
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Weapons of Mass Delusion
- When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
- De: Robert Draper
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a terrible day for American democracy, but many people dared to hope that at least it would break the fever that had overcome the Republican Party and banish Trump's relentless lies about the stealing of the 2020 election. That is not what happened. Instead, “the big steal” has become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know.
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If you had told me ...
- De kimberly stewart en 10-30-22
De: Robert Draper
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Huey Long
- De: T. Harry Williams
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 31 h y 48 m
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He was one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history, a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico - and yet he had become, at the time of his assassination, a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency. In this "masterpiece of American biography" ( New York Times), Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.
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Stunning, Compelling and Relevent
- De Paul en 11-28-11
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The Fifties
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 34 h y 44 m
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The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 10 years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower, Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon; but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; and more.
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one of the very best
- De Chester Chellman en 09-25-18
De: David Halberstam
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Birchers
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- Greg
- 05-28-23
how different perspectives can twist history
This audiobook was very insightful how people use words to twist reality to their perspective. In many cases in this audiobook the same words can describe both ends of the political spectrum. The author probably will swear he believes every word, just as someone on the other end would do the same. I have a dream game show.... Spin. Contestants have three rounds and points are scored, the contestant with the highest score wins the prize. First round, each contestant selects a topic and spins to their liking. Round two each contestant has to spin the others topic. Round three is a back and forth, each contestant asks the other to spin a topic to which they must then spin in a different direction, all without repeating anything already said. Round three ends when time runs out, like a boxing match, the judges score the round . Fun. This author would be a good inaugural contestant.
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- "teebalicious"
- 10-07-23
Everything old is new again.
In this fairly exhaustive but accessible history, common themes that once coalesced around pro-slavery and anti-immigrant forces are shown as a through line leading to the founding of the JBS, and how that influence continues today.
Many recognizable ideas, even word for word arguments and slogans, that dot our current political media landscape are unpacked here from their genesis. Fascinating, if morbid.
Easy to understand, interesting in both tone and content, and well read, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
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- William Diggins
- 05-03-24
The Missing Link
I was in elementary school circa 1969, when a classmate, the son of a corporate CEO mocked me for not knowing about the John Birch Society. Obviously he learned about it at home, as we were merely 7 years old. That stuck in my mind, so I had to read this book. Well, it turns out there’s a big throughline from the JBS to all the other right wing extremists up to the Tea Party and Q-Anon. The parallels are too obvious to ignore. Toss in the rise of specialized right wing media and social media’s facilitation of connecting like-minded individuals and their obsession with conspiracies and rumors and you get our current political climate. And there’s no William F. Buckley to gatekeep or rein in or tamp it down. Read this book for a thorough history of how we got here. Oh my heavens. It is timely.
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- quaere
- 03-28-23
Fascinating
Knowing this history informs on the political environment today. Everything old is new again. Highly recommend
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- Janie Burns
- 06-03-23
The Progenitor of the MAGA Movement
I was somewhat familiar with the John Birch Society from the 60s but never thought of it as a subversive organization infiltrating the GOP with a goal of undermining democracy. I thought it died out in the 70s. This book describes in detail how it metastasized and spread throughout the Republican Party and evolved into the current-day MAGA insurrectionist movement. Truly fascinating.
The delivery is like listening for hours to a lecturer discussing an important but dry episode of history which at times made me want to skip a few chapters or even put the book down, but I’m glad I didn’t. I just hope the arc of Bircherism ends in 2024.
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- D. Littman
- 03-26-23
Excellent popular history
An excellent well-researched popular history of the John Birch Society & the far right "populism" of the 1950s and 1960s. Many resemblances between this stain on American history and earlier ones (e.g., the "No Nothing" Party of the 1850s, the KKK of the 1920s) and later/contemporary ones (QAnon). This strain of rightwing, paranoid has existed as an element of American politics throughout our history, usually repudiated by the mainstream parties (whether honestly or not). Today's paranoid/racist/anti-immigration & anti-semitic fringe has seemingly found a home in the contemporary Republican Party. An understanding of the boom & bust of the John Birch Society can help the reader understanding what is going on now.
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- Shirley
- 05-23-23
My father was a Bircher.
Well written and very well narrated, this history is poignant and extremely relevant to the challenges we currently face as a nation.
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- J. Harris
- 06-29-23
Good tie in to current politics
If you always wondered about what the John Birch Society was and who was John Birch this is the starting point. Prof Dallek demonstrates how it all ties into today..
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-15-23
Fallen connects the dots from the Birchers’ beginnings to the frightening radical right of today.
I liked the straightforward sequencing of changes in conservative Republican politics as it accommodated and absorbed JBS racism, nativism, and conspiracy theories.
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- Stefan Borst-Censullo
- 07-17-24
Well crafted but needed more research
Decent thesis but the author stretched the material to cover the modern era instead of focusing on the main era of the society’s influence
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