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Book currents; the fringing of America.(three books)(Brief Article)

The New Yorker

| January 14, 2002 | Rozzo, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"You never want to make a house look like an obvious fortress." This helpful observation comes from the "survivalist architect" Joel Skosen, who makes an amusing cameo appearance in Richard G. Mitchell, Jr.,'s DANCING AT ARMAGEDDON (Chicago). Mitchell, a sociologist at Oregon State, zeroes in on this growing American subculture of racial separatists, tax protesters, citizen militias, and assorted "enthusiasts for trouble." He encountered apocalypse-obsessed Americans who shell out $700,000 for fortified retreats, subscribe to Survive magazine, belong to organizations with names like the Mount Rainier Rangers, and groove to "patriot" singer-songwriter Mark Koernke's "We Must Take America Back."

Americans' efforts to shore up against Armageddon, Mitchell argues, aren't anything new: Puritan settlers, after all, strove to establish a Holy Commonwealth in expectation of the ...

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