David Bennett presents a ground-breaking historical analysis of the forces shaping nativist and counter-subversive activity in America from colonial times to the present. He demonstrates that in this nation of immigrants the American Right did not emerge from postfeudal parties of privilege or from the social chaos that bred a Hitler or Mussolini in Europe. It arose instead in antialien movements, repeatedly fueled by the burning desire to answer the question, "Who are the real Americans?" Beginning with the Know-Nothings and the American Protective Association of the nineteenth century,...