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Book Review


William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult. By Scott Beekman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. xviii, 269 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-0819-5.)
Scott Beekman's book urges historians to take William Dudley Pelley seriously. This first full-scale biography of Pelley may lack the intellectual spark of Leo Ribuffo's chapter about Pelley in The Old Christian Right (1983), but it adds substance and details about the life and ideas of the founder of the Silver Shirts. He was one of the colorful cadre of far-right demagogues in the ideologically charged 1930s, and the author's goal was "to place Pelley within the context of this vibrant, extremist world" (p. xii). . . .
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