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From the Chinese, to the Irish, to Jewish and to the Japanese, Americans have let their paranoia supersede judicious reasoning. Not to be outdone by the aforementioned examples of historical hysteria, the 2016 presidential election in the United States brought the Know-Nothings back from the depths of history. This book examines the background of the Know-Nothing movement in the 1850s and those parts of the movement that have re-emerged in the twenty-first century with the election of Donald Trump.
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Volle, J.J. (2019). Introduction. In: Donald Trump and the Know-Nothing Movement. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78334-5_1
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