Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
5-1997
Publisher
University of Michigan Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Strangers there are among us, practicing with weapons for something they believe might come - something some of them believe should come. Militia men, patriots, self-proclaimed true Americans. Chosen people. What are we, members of the power elite, the academy, the legal intelligentsia - the other chosen people - to make of them? Sideshow freaks may titillate even a scholar, but they rarely, if ever, inform. Is there more here?
Along with the authors of Gathering Storm and Rural Radicals, I believe there is. Neither of these books sets out to convince lawyers or law professors in particular that these groups are worthy of attention, but both are written to convince a more general audience that these groups warrant serious attention. Gathering Storm is written for the public at large, while Rural Radicals is written for a more highly educated subset thereof. Unfortunately, neither book is entirely successful at its assumed task, although both pose important questions.
Recommended Citation
Susan P. Koniak,
The Chosen People in our Wilderness
,
in
95
Michigan Law Review
1761
(1997).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2152
Comments
Review of Morris Dees, Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat, HarperCollins Publishers (1996) and Catherine McNicol Stock, Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain, Cornell University Press (1996).