Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-471) and index

Rebellious colonizers: Bacon's rebellion and the American revolution -- The real people: Antimasonry, Jacksonianism, and anti-Catholic nativism -- A great mongrel military despotism: the first Ku Klux Klan and the anti-Chinese crusade -- Barbarians and plunder leagues: Theodore Roosevelt and the progressives -- 100 percent Americanism: World War I-era repression and the second Ku Klux Klan -- The industrialism as producer: Henry Ford's corporate empire -- Driving out the money changers: fascist politics in the New Deal era -- From New Deal to Cold War: political scapegoating and business conflict from the 1930s to the 1950s -- The pillars of the U.S. populist conspiricisms: the John Birch society and the liberty lobby -- From old right to new right: Godless communism, civil rights, and secular humanism -- Culture wars and political scapegoats: gender, sexuality, and race -- Dominion theology and Christian nationalism: hard-line ideology versus pragmatism -- New faces for white nationalism: reframing supremacist narratives -- Battling the new world order: patriots and armed militias -- The vast Clinton conspiracy machine: the hard right on the center stage -- The new millennium: demonization, conspiracism, and scapegoating in transition