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Article: Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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By Catherine McNicol Stock (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. xi plus 219pp.).
Incongruous elements of what is known of the story of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and a desire to understand better the motives of those alleged to have committed the act, inspired Catherine McNicol Stock to write Rural Radicals, an extended interpretive essay which seeks to illuminate the nature of contemporary rural radicalism in the United States by exploring its origins and historical evolution. Stock begins by observing that rural radicalism is rife with contradictions and paradoxical qualities. Rural radicals frequently ...