The presidency of Donald Trump has focused considerable attention on the rise and mainstreaming of the far right in the United States. Many historians view its emergence as a domestic phenomenon embedded in reaction to the New Deal and the labor, civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights movements of the latter half of the 20th century. Kyle Burke argues that such explanations are incomplete. In Revolutionaries of the Right, he documents the transnational dimensions of the far right and explores how U.S. conservatives forged ties to anti-Communist forces abroad during the Cold War. These connections shaped how they viewed both foreign and domestic events. Driven by the belief that indecisive members of Congress, out-of-touch intelligence agencies, and weak-kneed liberals impeded the U.S. government's ability to defeat Communism, a mosaic of far-right groups and individuals advocated for private money, private groups, and mercenaries to fill the void. Although the...

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