American hysteria: the untold story of mass political extremism in the United States

Defining hysteria : what it is...and what it isn't

America's first time : Jedidiah Morse and the anti-Illuminati movement

The anti-Masons : the disappearance of William Morgan and the rise of third party politics

The Red Scare : A. Mitchell Palmer takes on the enemy within our gates

The dawning of McCarthyism : from communists to blacklists, one senator channels the fears of a nation

The United States after 9/11 : the American Right and the threat of Sharia law

The way forward : a practical guide to confronting political hysteria.