Radical Right Recommended Reading

Sarah Posner, Jeff Sharlet, Talia Lavin, and the authors that provide reporting, insight, and analysis of the various sectors of the U.S. Radical Right.

The author’s disorganized bookshelf.

Below is a selection of books that I have either read or used as a research resource, and would recommend reading to understand the various sectors of the U.S. Radical Right. The books are organized into topics and listed alphabetically by author.

What books would you recommend? Leave your recommendation as a comment.

Trumpism

• Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner

• The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer

• God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox

Right-Wing Politics

• What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank

• Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons

• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

• Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson

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

Right-Wing Extremism

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

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

• The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right by Daniel Levitas

• Alt-America The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert

• American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism by Arie Perliger

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

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

Christian Right

• Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right by Randall Balmer

• The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America by Kimberly Blaker

• Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy by Frederick Clarkson

• Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg

• The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones

• One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse

• The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet

• The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart

Anti-Abortion Movement

• Living in the Crosshairs: The Untold Stories of Anti-Abortion Terrorism by by David S. Cohen and Krysten Connon

• The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion by Robin Marty and Jessica Mason-Pieklo

• Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics by Carol Mason

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