Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney.

Right in Michigan's grassroots : from the KKK to the Michigan militia / JoEllen McNergney Vinyard. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011. - xi, 363 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Weaving a tangled web : the great war and its aftermath -- Americans we : people of the KKK -- The Klan in action -- Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Union for Social Justice -- Hard, harder, hardest of times -- Ballots not bullets -- The center restored -- Anti-communism and the John Birch Society -- Better dead than red -- Extremism in defense of influence : the John Birch Society -- Other options, other causes -- The Michigan militia -- The "duty of defense" : organizing the Michigan militia -- An unorganized, organized militia.

9780472071593 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472051595 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780472027637 (e-book)

2011003375


Right and left (Political science)--History.--Michigan

JK5835 / .V56 2011

322.4/209774