Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain

Stock, Catherine McNicol

ISBN 10: 0801432944 / ISBN 13: 9780801432941

Editore: Cornell University Press, 1996

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Columbia University Press, 1996; Ithaca, New York. Hard Cover. Book condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: As New. Unstated edition, unstated printing with no number line. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 9-1/4" tall, 219 numbered pages includes "A Note on Method", "A Note on Sources", "Notes" and "Index". This book is nearly pristine: the exterior is square, spotlessly clean, free of corner bumps and edge dings with slight fading at the head and heel of the spine; hinges are strong. Except for an inked name/date/city on the back of the FFEP, the interior is perfectly clean and completely free of writing, stray marks, stains and any sort of paper damage. Not remaindered or ex-library; though there is no 'slug' on the book or any mention on the jacket of any book club, I cannot swear that it is not a Book Club edition. The dust jacket is clean and free of tears, scratches, scrapes, and fading; jacket is now protected by mylar jacket. An examination of the rural discontent that led to the blowing up of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the "politically conservative fear of outside power nd authority in the form of government, corporations, international institutions, experts, and the media . . . ". It sounds rather relevant now in a world of MAGA.

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• Titolo: Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801432944
• ISBN 13: 9780801432941
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: As New

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Riassunto

When terrorists blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a shocked nation could scarcely imagine the perpetrators were home-grown. If they were, Catherine McNicol Stock explains, they participated in a long tradition of rural extremism. The arrest of Timothy McVeigh, the alleged perpetrator, gave terrorism a face and it turned out to be the white-skinned, blue-eyed, clean-shaven face of a small-town boy who served in the Gulf War. Networks of militiamen, conspiracists, survivalists, and white supremacists suddenly visible to media attention had been there all along, Stock suggests. They are heirs to a tradition as old as the country itself, characteristically angry and frequently violent, rendering patriotism as intolerance.

As early as 1676, rural Virginians took up arms to protest what they considered economic and political injustices, and the fierce protective responses did not stop with the Revolution. Stock examines recurring themes in rural radical movements, including anti-federalism, white supremacy, populism, and vigilantism. These themes suggest to her some of the seemingly contradictory responses implicit in rural discontent. The politically conservative fear of outside power and authority in the form of government, corporations, international institutions, experts, and the media is juxtaposed with the potentially democratic desire to protect and revive community, culture, and the cooperative tradition. Stock believes we need to understand both the historic roots and the diverse manifestations of rural radicalism in order to make some sense of the action that tore a hole in this country's heartland in the spring of 1995.

Informazioni sull?autore

Catherine McNicol Stock is Associate Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at Connecticut College.