James Aho is Professor Emeritus at Idaho State University where he has taught for over forty years. Recognized as a Distinguished Researcher and Teacher, he is author of many books, including Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease and Illness (co-written with his son, Kevin) and Sociological Trespasses: Interrogating Sin and Flesh. Aho is also author of two award-winning studies of religiously-motivated political violence, The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism and This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy.
Prologue: The Battle of "Bunker Ville" Introduction Interlude 1: Sovereign Citizens 1. The American Far-Right in Perspective Interlude 2: The Secessionist State of Jefferson 2. Explaining the Far-Right Interlude 3: Dreams of a Right-Wing Homeland 3. "White Man": Its Extinction and Redemption Interlude 4: "Cut It or Shut It" 4. The Communicative Preconditions of Far-Right Fantasy Interlude 5: The Rhetoric of "No Spin" News 5. Far-Right Fantasy.1 The "Satanification" of America Interlude 6: Nullification 6. Far-Right Fantasy.2 The Christian Reconstruction of America Interlude 7: "Justus" Served 7. Far-Right Fantasy.3 A Critique Interlude 8: Biblically Inspired Investing 8. Far-Right Fantasy.4 False Consciousness Epilogue: A Latter Day Fortress 9. Appendix American Right-Wing Implicated Fatalities from 1980 through 2014
Far-Right Fantasy is a straight-forward, jargon-free study of contemporary American right-wing extremism.