The New Hate:
(Pantheon, 2012)
“A provocative, intellectually rigorous book written clearly and with an admirable lack of hatred.”
—Kirkus Review (starred)
“A witty narrator, Goldwag combines his research with contemporary analysis to explain what conspiracy theories all have in common and to show how the new hate is the same as the old, though it’s now ‘hiding in plain sight.’”
—Publishers Weekly
A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right
“A lucid and detailed account of the irrational and bigoted right-wing populists and their conspiracy theories of power in the United States. These conspiracists are like intellectual vampires sucking the blood out of the body politic and leaving behind a weakened democracy in a fading twilight for civil society.”
—Chip Berlet, co-author Right-Wing Populism in America
“This exhumation of the deep and gnarled roots of the American conspiratorial tradition could not be more timely. Combining a sweeping historical eye and sharp contemporary analysis, Arthur Goldwag explains not just why American politics in the Age of Obama is infected by a virulent strain of right-wing conspiracism — but why it has always been thus.”
–Alexander Zaitchik, author, Common Nonsense
“Titillating, shocking, brilliant, and often hilarious…a mesmerizing tour through the landscape of nutbaggery in the US.”
—The Advocate
“The equivalent of the Birther movement has existed in previous centuries and inspired books by clearheaded authors...Goldwag’s tome is the most up-to-date, naturally, but it is also the best written and the least paranoid about paranoid haters.”
—In These Times
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