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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Nineteenth-Century Legacy 6 The Ku Klux Klan 1 • Weaving a Tangled Web: The Great War and Its Aftermath 17 2 • Americans We: People of the KKK 42 3 • The Klan in Action 68 Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Union for Social Justice 4 • Hard, Harder, Hardest of Times 99 5 • “Ballots—Not Bullets!” 122 6 • The Center Restored 141 Anti-Communism and the John Birch Society 7 • Better Dead Than Red 175 8 • Extremism in Defense of In›uence: The John Birch Society 196 9 • Other Options, Other Causes 226 The Michigan Militia 10 • The “Duty of Defense”: Organizing the Michigan Militia 253 11 • An Unorganized, Organized Militia 276 Epilogue 305 Notes 311 Index 343 ...

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