Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe

Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJohn George, Laird Wilcox
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitics
PublisherPrometheus Books
Publication date
1992
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages523
ISBN0-87975-680-2

Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America is a 1992 book by John George and Laird Wilcox. It is an examination of political extremism of both the far-left and far-right in the United States. It was published by Prometheus Books in 1992 as a 523-page hardcover. In 1996, Prometheus Books republished it as American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists and Others in a 443-page paperback.

The authors attempt to summarize the pre-1960 historical background of American extremist movements, discuss conspiracy theories and their validity, offer their insight on what motivates extremists, and discuss a number of contemporary groups on the "far-left" and "far-right" based principally on their personal contacts with approximately six hundred individual extremists and the extremists' own writings.