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Singh has written an exciting and balanced account of Farrakhan's career and place in American racial politics. [He] correctly places Farrakhan on the right side of the American political spectrum ... In telling the Farrakhan story, Singh does a first-rate job of relating Farrakhan's move from the margins of American racial politics to the center. -- Clarence E. Walker, professor of history, University of California-Davis Singh addresses an important topic in modern American politics ... He has produced an exceptionally well researched and argued analysis of the politics of the Farrakhan movement. In doing so, he not only makes a significant contribution to the study of African-American politics but provides a timely account of the ideological foundations of U.S. political debate. This is a valuable book. -- Desmond King, St. John's College, Oxford, and author of Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government Singh has drawn a fascinating social miniature of Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam, and connected it up to an enduring perspective on American political history, courtesy of Richard Hofstadter and the paranoid style. -- Byron E. Shafer, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford

About the Author

Robert Singh is a lecturer in political science at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

Singh addresses an important topic in modern American politics . . . . He has produced an exceptionally well researched and argued analysis of the politics of the Farrakhan movement. In doing so, he not only makes a significant contribution to the study of African-American politics but provides a timely account of the ideological foundations of U.S. political debate. This is a valuable book.--Desmond King, St. John's College, Oxford, and author of Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government

Singh has drawn a fascinating social miniature of Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam, and connected it up to an enduring perspective on American political history, courtesy of Richard Hofstadter and the paranoid style.--Byron E. Shafer, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford

Singh has written an exciting and balanced account of Farrakhan's career and place in American racial politics. [He] correctly places Farrakhan on the right side of the American political spectrum . . . . In telling the Farrakhan story, Singh does a first-rate job of relating Farrakhan's move from the margins of American racial politics to the center.--Clarence E. Walker, professor of history, University of California-Davis