In American Zealots Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview
of right-wing domestic terrorism. He analyzes its historical roots characteristics tactics
rhetoric and organization assessing the current and future trajectory of the use of violence
by the far right. Perliger draws on a comprehensive dataset of more than 5 000 attacks and
their perpetrators between 1990 and 2018 in order to explore key trends in American right-wing
terrorism. He describes the entire ideological spectrum of the American far right including
today's white supremacists antigovernment groups and antiabortion fundamentalists as well as
the histories of the KKK skinheads and neo-Nazis. Based on these findings Perliger suggests
counterterrorism policies that can respond effectively to the far-right threat. A
groundbreaking examination of violence spawned from right-wing ideologies American Zealots is
essential reading for everyone seeking to understand the transformation of domestic terrorism.
