Donald Trump and the Know-Nothing Movement

Understanding the 2016 US Election

Jeffrey J Volle author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Birkhauser Verlag AG

Published:5th Jun '18

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Historically, segments of white Americans have let racist paranoia supersede judicious reasoning throughout our history. The 2016 Presidential election in the United States brought the Know-Nothing’s back from the hidden depths of our history books. This book provides a historical account of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s through their reemergence in the 21st century with the election of Donald Trump. Analyzing the anti-immigration and anti-Catholic rhetoric of the Know-Nothing movement and tracing that same rhetoric in George Wallace's American Independent Party in the '60s, up into its appearance in the Trump movement, this book provides a guide for understanding the 2016 Republican Party agenda through its inheritance from the Know-Nothing Movement.

ISBN: 9783319783338

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123 pages

1st ed. 2019