A good overview of the issues, concerns, and personalities of the American Radical Right in the early 1980s. The book could have been longer, but that was its only major fault. Finch let the Radical Right speak in their own words which was quite effective. Most members came across as fiercly independent and/or rebellious and often as (especially Identity people and tax protestors) illogical. They certainly confirmed my suspicions that this sort of person simply can not cooperate to any great extent with others of the same ilk. Conspiracy theories of delightfully convulted and absurd proportions were covered. Finch gave a sense of the real people involved in these movements and how, on one level, they seem so normal and nice. He certainly made a convincing case for not fearing a great surge of this sort of activity, at least during economically normal times. Government counter intelligence activity, specifically the FBI's COINTELPRO, was briefly, but fascinatedly, covered. I particularly liked the interview of Laird Wilcox, expert on radical groups left and right and his personal thoughts of and experiences with each, and Bill DePurgh of the Minutemen, the only seemingly thoughtful, intellectual, reasonable (in the sense of thinking about and trying to justify and reconcile a number of idealogical issues and tactical ploys) member of the Radical Right. ( )