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Books About Contemporary Far Right Extremism

This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.

See also these related book lists:

Sasha Abramsky: Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America.

Stephen D. Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin, & Aaron Winter (editors): Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice.

Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Rohan Gunaratna, & Arie W. Kruglanski: The Three Pillars of Radicalization: Needs, Narratives, and Networks.

Kathleen Belew: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.

Kathleen Belew & Ramon A. Gutierrez (editors): A Field Guide to White Supremacy.

J.M. Berger: Extremism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series).

R. Derek Black: The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir.

Kathleen M. Blee: Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research.

Kathleen M. Blee, Robert Futrell, & Pete Simi: Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How it can be Stopped.

Kurt Braddock: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization.

Andy Campbell: We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism.

Jesselyn Cook: The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family.

Seyward Darby: Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism.

Betty A. Dobratz & Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile: The White Separatist Movement in the United States: “White Power, White Pride!”

Federico Finchelstein: The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy.

Robert Futrell & Pete Simi: American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate.

Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, & Jennifer Sutton: Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump.

Michael Hagemeister: The Perennial Conspiracy Theory Reflections on the History of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Stig Jarle Hansen & Stian Lid (editors): Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement.

Bruce Hoffman & Jacob Ware: God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America.

Sam Jackson: Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group.

Rita Katz: Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, From Syria to the Capitol Siege.

Daniel Koehler, Arie W. Kruglanski, & David Webber: The Radical’s Journey: How German Neo-Nazis Voyaged to the Edge and Back.

Talia Lavin: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.

Dick Lehr: White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland.

Clark McCauley & Sophia Moskalenko: Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right.

D. J. Mulloy: Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump.

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Nora Neus: 24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy.

Arie Perliger: American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism.

Christian Picciolini: Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism.

Shannon E. Reid: Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White.

Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman: White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.

Robert Schertzer & Eric Taylor Woods: The New Nationalism in America and Beyond: The Deep Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in the Digital Age.

Alexandra Minna Stern: Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination.

Spencer Sunshine: Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege.

Vegas Tenold: Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America.

Jeffrey Toobin: Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism.

Mike Wendling: Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy.

Ruth Wodak: The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse.

Leonard Zeskind: Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream.