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Extremism and cults
Alt right, nazi, ideology, sociology, politics, right wing, psychology, political science, Extremist, Extremism, cults, terrorism, abuse, fascism, racism, crimes, true crimes, spiritual abuse
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Anti-Semitism: A Disease of the Mind
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Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
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3.72 avg rating — 234 ratings
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White Working Class
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The Klan Unmasked: With a New Introduction by David Pilgrim and a New Author's Note
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4.03 avg rating — 131 ratings
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White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
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Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
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3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Psychology of Totalitarianism
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White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
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Religion and the Ku Klux Klan: Biblical Appropriation in Their Literature and Songs
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Summary of Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor: by Fireside Reads
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The Second Coming of the Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
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Do As I Say: How Cults Control, Why We Join Them, and What They Teach Us About Bullying, Abuse and Coercion
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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
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Depends What You Mean By Extremist
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3.93 avg rating — 1,581 ratings
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
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Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
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Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering Into and Breaking Out of a Minneapolis Political Cult
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Alexandra Stein (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
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You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
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When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse
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Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA
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3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life
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Sarah Edmondson (Narrator)
3.95 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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4.29 avg rating — 4,920 ratings
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Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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Leah Remini (Goodreads Author)
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
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Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,638 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable―And How We Can Stop It
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3.78 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
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3.65 avg rating — 384 ratings
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