Bücher von Michael Barkun

Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11

Examines all the leading millennial movements of New York in the 1840s showing intricate linkages among social reformers, community builders, and revivalists. The book adds to our understanding of the richly textured fabric of American social and religious experimentation, even to the present day.

This edition traces the role of Christian Identity figures in the events of the first half of the 1990s, from the Oklahoma City bombing, to the rise of the militia movement and the Freemen standoff in Montana. It explores the government's response to these challenges to the legitimacy of the state.