The Far Right in the 1930s: A Reconsideration

FAIN: FT-13302-77

Leo Paul Ribuffo
George Washington University (Washington, DC 20052-0001)

To examine the developing world views and personalities of William Dudley Pelley, Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L.K. Smith and Lawrence Dennis, four figures from the Far Right who were most active during the 1930's and 1940's. PI argues that their extremism was not the result of any mental disorder but rather the result of their social environments which were basically fundamentalist or occult subcultures.