Description: Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg's critical look at the far right throughout Europe reveals a prehistory and politics more complex than the stereotypes suggest and warns of the challenges it poses to the EU's liberal-democratic order. These movements are determined to gain power through legitimate electoral means, and they are succeeding.
Brief description: Jean-Yves Camus is Director of the Observatory of Radical Politics at the Jean Jaurès Foundation, Paris.
Review Quotes: A fascinating and comprehensive study that follows more than a century of the history of far-right movements in Western Europe as they transform or die and argues that there are no prepackaged essences to them. I cannot imagine a better way to understand the current field than to read this book.--John R. Bowen, author of Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space