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2.
“President George Bush Announcing the War Against Iraq,” January 16, 1991,
www.historyplace.com/speeches/bush-war.htm
.

  
3.
William Carmichael, “Populist Institution’s 35th Anniversary in Washington,”
The Spotlight
, September 17, 1990, p. 13.

  
4.
Stephen A. Koczak, “Shooting Imminent in Iraq: Israel Planning Preemptive Strike,”
The Spotlight
, October 29, 1990, p. 1.

  
5.
W. A. Carto, “Foreign Policy Must Have America as Focus,”
The Spotlight
, October 15, 1990, p. 4.

  
6.
Carto’s ideas about culture distortion first published: E. L. Anderson, Ph.D. [Carto], “Cultural Dynamics I, II and III,”
Right
, November 1959, March 1969, and June 1960.

  
7.
The Klansman
, Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, publisher, January/February 1991.

  
8.
“Is the U.S. Ready for War With Iraq?”
The Nationalist
, National Democratic Front newsletter 61 (December 1990).

  
9.
Terre Rybovich, communication to author, January 16, 1991.

10.
“STAND UP FOR AMERICA FIRST!” Populist Party of Florida, n.d.

11.
Communication to Center for Democratic Renewal, “Populist Party Demonstration Anti–Gulf Intervention,” November 10, 1990; “Protests Against Bush’s War Held in Pennsylvania and New York,”
The Populist Observer
, December 1990, p. 5.

12.
Ibid.

13.
“Populist Candidates Make Impact at the Ballot Box,”
The Populist Observer
, December 1990.

14.
William F. Buckley, Jr., “Pat Buchanan Part 2: In Search of Anti-Semitism,”
National Review
, December 30, 1991, p. 31 (quotes Buchanan on war drums).

15.
Ibid.

16.
Patrick J. Buchanan,
Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories
(New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1975), pp. 48–71; Patrick J. Buchanan,
Right from the Beginning
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), pp. 80–102, 336–59; Patrick J. Buchanan, “Immigration Reform or Racial Purity?,”
Washington Inquirer
, June 15, 1984.

17.
Patrick J. Buchanan, “Immigration Reform or Racial Purity?”

18.
Micah Sifry, “Anti-Semitism in America,”
The Nation
, January 25, 1993, p. 94 (Treblinka diesel engines); Lucette Lagnado, “Pat Buchanan and The Émigré Nazis,”
The Nation
, May 4, 1985 (Demjanjuk); Kenneth S. Stern, “Patrick Joseph Buchanan: Backgrounder” (American Jewish Committee, n.d.); “From Columnist to Candidate: Pat Buchanan’s Religious War” (Anti-Defamation League, 1992); Mark Weber, “Reviewing a Year of Progress,”
The Journal of Historical Review
10, no. 4, pp. 444–45.

19.
A. M. Rosenthal, “On My Mind Forgive Them Not,”
The New York Times
, September 14, 1990; William F. Buckley, Jr., “The Pro-Buchanan Case: In Search of Anti-Semitism,”
National Review
, December 30, 1991, p. 34.

20.
William F. Buckley, Jr., “In Search of Anti-Semitism,” p. 40.

21.
Patrick J. Buchanan, “The 90s Are Still Up for Grabs,” syndicated column appearing in
The Independent American
(Littleton, Col.), November 15, 1990, p. 1.

22.
“Buchanan Registers a TKO Over Rosenthal,”
The Populist Observer
, September/October 1990, p. 11.

23.
Robert Blumetti, “Patrick J. Buchanan: The Personification of Populism,”
The Populist Observer
, September/October 1990, p. 13.

24.
Ibid.

25.
“Buchanan Registers a TKO Over Rosenthal,”
The Populist Observer
.

25. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Transformation of White Supremacy

  
1.
“Soviet Union,”
The 1992 Information Please Almanac
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), pp. 253–56.

  
2.
John B. Dunlop,
The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Union
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 123–85.

  
3.
The process of unraveling continued long after the Soviet collapse was complete, lending credence to the notion that ethnic nationalism was not just a response to communism but had developed a dynamic of its own.

  
4.
“Personal . . . From the Editor,”
The Spotlight
, January 1 and 8, 1990, p. 2.

  
5.
“Changing the Mask,”
National Vanguard
111 (June/July 1999), pp. 9–14.

  
6.
Ibid.

  
7.
William Pierce, “Dear Subscriber,” letter, received July 17, 1990; William Pierce, “To My Fellow Thought Criminals,”
National Vanguard
111, pp. 2–4.

  
8.
Eric Hobsbawm,
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914–1991
(New York: Vintage, 1996), p. 256.

  
9.
Michael Ignatieff,
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993); Paul Hockenos,
Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
(New York: Routledge, 1993).

10.
Hobsbawm,
The Age of Extremes
, p. 255.

11.
Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?”
The National Interest
, Summer 1989; Francis Fukuyama,
The End of History and the Last Man
(New York: Free Press, 1992) (Hegelian extension of his core argument).

12.
Samuel P. Huntington,
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), pp. 19–55, 301–21, for quote: 304–305.

13.
Huntington,
The Clash of Civilizations
, pp. 19–55, 301–21.

14.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri,
Empire
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 3–21, 69–113; Benjamin R. Barber,
Jihad versus McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1996), pp. 219–35.

15.
Louis Beam, “The Death of Anti-Communism,”
The Seditionist
11 (Fall 1991), p. 1.

16.
Hobsbawm,
Age of Extremes
, p. 252: “Anti-communism was generally and viscerally popular in a country built on individualism and private enterprise.”

17.
Hobsbawm,
Age of Extremes
, p. 235; Hobsbawm cites Martin Walker,
The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World
(London: Fourth Estate, 1993), p. 55.

18.
Louis Beam, “The Second Half of World War II Is Coming,”
The Seditionist
11 (Fall 1991), pp. 4–8.

19.
Beam, “The Death of Anti-Communism,”
The Seditionist
11 (Fall 1991), p. 2.

20.
Misha Glenny,
The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–1999
(New York: Penguin Books, 2001).

21.
Misha Glenny,
The Fall of Yugoslavia
(New York: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 19.

22.
Chris Hedges, “Fascists Reborn as Croatia’s Founding Fathers,”
The New York Times
, April 12, 1997; Stephen Kinzer, “Pro-Nazi Legacy Lingers For Croatia,”
The New York Times
, October 31, 1993; Franjo Tudjman,
Wastelands—Historical Truth
, originally published as:
Bespu’ca povjesne zbiljnosti
(Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Matice Hrvatske, 1989); English language excerpts available at
www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/Tudjman.html
; “Croatia’s President Rejects ‘Six Million’ Story,”
The Journal of Historical Review
12, no. 2 (Summer 1992), pp. 240–43.

23.
Michel Faci, “National Socialist Fight in Croatia!”
The New Order
, January/February 1993; “French Patriots Visit,”
The Truth at Last
360 (January 1994), (Faci talked to Atlantans
about his exploits in the former Yugoslavia); Gerhard (Gary) Lauck, “Dear National Socialist Comrade,” letter, August 24, 1993 (Lauck returned from “between Croatian and Serbian postions”); Lauck distributed a videotape of Faci’s “NS” military unit in Croatia.

24.
Glenny,
The Balkans
, pp. 634–52.

25.
Ibid., pp. 652–62.

26.
Maureen Dowd, “Clinton Warns of Violent Nationalism,”
The New York Times
, June 8, 1994.

27.
This phenomenon was easier for Americans to see in Russia with Zhronovsky and in France with Le Pen than to see in their own country with Buchanan and America first nationalism.

26. Transatlantic Traffic

  
1.
“Revisionist Rats Rally,”
Searchlight
, April 1991; “Leuchter Laid Off in Munich,”
Searchlight
, May 1991; Mark Weber, “Revisionists Meet in Munich Despite Conference Ban,”
IHR Newsletter
, May 1991.

  
2.
Mark Weber, “Revisionists Meet in Munich Despite Conference Ban,”
IHR Newsletter
, May 1991.

  
3.
Ibid.

  
4.
Floyd Cochran, interview with author in Kansas City, August 20, 1992 (Cochran attended the wedding); “The Princes of the South Take Brides of the Princesses of the North,” Aryan Nations,
Calling Our Nation
63 (pictures from Kirk Lyons-Brenna Tate wedding); Kevin Sack, “Member’s Racist Ties Split Confederate Legacy Group,”
The New York Times
, November 8, 2001.

  
5.
“Member Forms Legal Foundation,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, November/December 1989; “Articles of Incorporation,” Patriot’s Defense Foundation, December 10, 1989.

  
6.
Lee Hancock, “Law and Hate: Lawyer Finds Clientele on Right-Wing Political Fringe,”
The Dallas Morning News
, February 18, 1990.

  
7.
Kirk D. Lyons, “Dear Fellow Patriot,” letter seeking donations, June 30, 1990 (“Remember that our primary mission here is to conduct legal warfare”); Kirk Lyons, “The Lawyer of the Right,”
Volkstreue
fanzine, n.d. (translation from the German by M.H.).

  
8.
Cover, photo of John Tyndall and Sam Dickson, credit Jimmie Lee,
Searchlight
, June 1991; “Atlanta Attorney Sponsors Tyndall Meeting,”
The Monitor
, August 1991; “Nazi Godfather Jordan Accuses Tyndall of Election Sell-Out,”
Searchlight
, May 1997 (cover photo of Tyndall in uniform without swastika).

  
9.
John Tyndall,
The Eleventh Hour: A Call for British Rebirth
(London: Albion Press, n.d.), pp. 557–66; “British Neo-Nazi Barred Entry to North Carolina,” photo of Tyndall in uniform before a swastika flag and a picture of Hitler, courtesy of
Searchlight
,
The Monitor
20 (August 1990), p. 10.

10.
“British National Party,”
Searchlight
, January 1991, p. 12.

11.
“The Education of John Tyndall,”
Instauration
, November 1988, pp. 5–7 (
The Eleventh Hour
available from Dickson’s Historical Review Press); “British Nationalists on Videocassette,”
Instauration
, June 1987, p. 34.

12.
Leonard Zeskind, “Briton Is Key Link to U.S. Neo-Nazis,”
The Forward
, June 7, 1991.

13.
John Tyndall, “Back to America,”
Spearhead
269 (July 1991), p. 4.

14.
Articles of Incorporation of Howard Allen Enterprises, Inc., State of Florida, Humphrey Ireland, February 12, 1974; annual corporation registration, 1983, Humphrey Ireland and Mary Ireland, Melbourne, Florida, officers; Don Warren, communication to author after visit with Humphrey and Mary Ireland at their North Carolina home, March 31, 1993.

15.
Tyndall, “Back to America,” p. 7; “Thanks to Ed Fields and to Sam Dickson, who apart from his role in putting on the Atlanta meeting, also masterminded the entire tour.”

16.
Sam G. Dickson, “Dear Friend,” letter on Anglo-American Forum letterhead, May 7, 1991.

17.
Ibid.

18.
Sam G. Dickson, “Dear Friend,” letter with Atlanta Committee for Historical Review return address, May 21, 1990.

19.
Nicole C. Crews, “White Power Leaders Map Plans,”
Carolina Peacemaker
, May 23–29, 1991; Michael Collins Piper, “Populist Committee Officially Launched,”
The Spotlight
, June 3, 1991; “First Amendment Alive: Tyndall, Fields Speak,”
Populist Patriot
, newsletter
of the New Jersey Populist Party, May 1991; “Briton’s John Tyndall Speaks in N.J., Populist Party Host Dynamic Orator,”
The Post-Eagle
, June 12, 1991.

20.
Tyndall, “Back to America,” p. 5.

21.
“Excerpts from John Tyndall’s Address,”
European-American Public Affairs Courier
, June 3, 1991, pp. 7–8.

27. The Duke Campaign(s) and the Louisiana Electorate

  
1.
Eric Foner,
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863–1877
(New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 551.

  
2.
Foner,
Reconstruction
, pp. 575–83.

  
3.
Lerone Bennett, Jr.,
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
, 5th rev. ed. (New York: Penguin, 1987), pp. 250–52; Carrie Fleider, “Louisiana History,” communication to author, August 9, 2001.

  
4.
The 1992 Information Please Almanac
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), p. 749.

  
5.
Leonard Zeskind, “For Duke, Just a Start?,”
The New York Times
, October 9, 1990; the author owes a debt to Lance Hill, then of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, for some of the ideas expressed.

  
6.
“No Defeatism at Duke Election Night Party,” and “Text of David Duke’s Election Night Address,”
European-American Public Affairs Courier
, December 1, 1991, pp. 1–6.

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